* Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> [10-29-19 18:27]: > On 2019-10-29, Patrick Shanahan <p...@opensuse.org> wrote: > > * Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> [10-29-19 13:10]: > > > >> Muttdown (a "sendmail" filter) which creates mutlipart alternative > >> html/text messages is the only reason I've been able to continue to > >> use mutt for the past 5-6 years. About 90% of the people to whom I > >> send email can't deal with plaintext only. The display of plaintext is > >> butchered horribly by Outlook, and using plaintext-only makes me look > >> incompetent because I can't send an easy-to-read email (the recipient > >> has to save it as a text file and open it with notepad++ in a fixed > >> font for it to be readable). > > > > so you cater to people who have no idea, and cannot be bothered. > > Yep. If you're intent is to communicate with other poeple, you have > to use a medium and language understood by them. Otherwise you're > just singing in the shower. > > I suppose I could limit my social and professional interaction > strictly to other mutt users. Somebody should try that and let me > know how it goes...
fwiw, I do not have that problem and continually communicate with others and *still* am using mutt for nearly 20 years. perhaps the problem is in the chair in front of your keyboard. -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet freenode
