Re: HTML Mail (was: Re: Which technology should I learn to do this?)
[bottom posted, contrary to my usual custom] On Sun, 2012-01-08 at 09:15 +0200, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: On Sun, Jan 08, 2012 at 08:50:45AM +0200, Dotan Shavit wrote: ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il Dear Linux-IL subscribers, Should I officially give up and declare text email as a thing of the past? Should I move to some graphical mail client that displays and composes html mail? I tried Thunderbird a few times, for a few days each, over the last 5 or so years, and always went back to mutt. I see on this list some people that still use mutt. I also have a feeling that some of the past users of mutt on this list moved to html mail clients. I do not intend to start a flame war. Feel free to ignore, give advice, share your struggles, etc... My policy is to send text E-mail (except when I need the extra features of HTML E-mail) and use a graphical client (Evolution, in my case) to accept both text and HTML E-mails. --- Omer P.S.: How to export all folders from Evolution to Icedove and Thunderbird? -- Kosher Cellphones (cellphones with blocked SMS, video and Internet) are menace to the deaf. They must be outlawed! (See also: http://www.zak.co.il/tddpirate/2006/04/21/the-grave-danger-to-the-deaf-from-kosher-cellphones/ and http://www.zak.co.il/tddpirate/2007/02/04/rabbi-eliashiv-declared-war-on-the-deaf/) My own blog is at http://www.zak.co.il/tddpirate/ My opinions, as expressed in this E-mail message, are mine alone. They do not represent the official policy of any organization with which I may be affiliated in any way. WARNING TO SPAMMERS: at http://www.zak.co.il/spamwarning.html ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: HTML Mail (was: Re: Which technology should I learn to do this?)
On Sun, Jan 08, 2012 at 09:38:21AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 09:15, Yedidyah Bar-David linux...@didi.bardavid.org wrote: Should I officially give up and declare text email as a thing of the past? Should I move to some graphical mail client that displays and composes html mail? I tried Thunderbird a few times, for a few days each, over the last 5 or so years, and always went back to mutt. I see on this list some people that still use mutt. I also have a feeling that some of the past users of mutt on this list moved to html mail clients. I do not intend to start a flame war. Feel free to ignore, give advice, share your struggles, etc... For my personal email I use Thunderbird with text email. Why do you want to give up on text email? HTML email is the problem, not text. Well, at least you and Shachar, which happen to also be the participants in this discussion - but I think it's just a coincidence, happen to send html-only to the list. mailman added a signature as text-only, and mutt shows me the text by default. So I have to 'v' and choose the html part to see the actual message. But do not take this persoanally - I think that's a symptom, while the real issue is that no significant part of the population uses text email, and so those who do see it becoming less and less comfortable. BTW, if you were under the impression that you use TB BUT send text only, you have just discoverred that at least in some cases it sends html even when you ask it to send text only. My most recent real issue was with the way some mail clients format the replies, and the way lynx (also tried others) renders them to text, which in certain cases makes it impossible to understand who wrote what. -- Didi ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: HTML Mail (was: Re: Which technology should I learn to do this?)
On Sunday, January 08, 2012 02:15:44 AM Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: On Sun, Jan 08, 2012 at 08:50:45AM +0200, Dotan Shavit wrote: ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il Dear Linux-IL subscribers, Should I officially give up and declare text email as a thing of the past? Should I move to some graphical mail client that displays and composes html mail? I tried Thunderbird a few times, for a few days each, over the last 5 or so years, and always went back to mutt. I see on this list some people that still use mutt. I also have a feeling that some of the past users of mutt on this list moved to html mail clients. I do not intend to start a flame war. Feel free to ignore, give advice, share your struggles, etc... I'm 7000 miles away, and don't come to meetings, so I'm not really a group member, so take my opinion with a grain of salt. :-) In my own, personal opinion, HTML email is an unnecessary hassle and even possibly an unnecessary security risk. I've never sent an HTML email, and I often skip reading them, because kmail requires an extra click every time you read HTML email. Out of a refusal to switch to kmail2 with its unnecessary complication of Akonadi, I need to change email clients before transitioning to Ubuntu 11.10. I'll probably be using Balsa or GNUMail or something similar. I don't know if my next email client will support HTML email or not. Thanks SteveT * My new 99 cent Kindle book : http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006QTBLA2 * * Steve Litt : http://www.troubleshooters.com * . ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
HTML Mail (was: Re: Which technology should I learn to do this?)
On Sun, Jan 08, 2012 at 08:50:45AM +0200, Dotan Shavit wrote: ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il Dear Linux-IL subscribers, Should I officially give up and declare text email as a thing of the past? Should I move to some graphical mail client that displays and composes html mail? I tried Thunderbird a few times, for a few days each, over the last 5 or so years, and always went back to mutt. I see on this list some people that still use mutt. I also have a feeling that some of the past users of mutt on this list moved to html mail clients. I do not intend to start a flame war. Feel free to ignore, give advice, share your struggles, etc... -- Didi ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: HTML Mail (was: Re: Which technology should I learn to do this?)
On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 09:15, Yedidyah Bar-David linux...@didi.bardavid.org wrote: Should I officially give up and declare text email as a thing of the past? Should I move to some graphical mail client that displays and composes html mail? I tried Thunderbird a few times, for a few days each, over the last 5 or so years, and always went back to mutt. I see on this list some people that still use mutt. I also have a feeling that some of the past users of mutt on this list moved to html mail clients. I do not intend to start a flame war. Feel free to ignore, give advice, share your struggles, etc... For my personal email I use Thunderbird with text email. Why do you want to give up on text email? HTML email is the problem, not text. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
