On Sun, 21 Mar 2021 11:57:09 -0400 (EDT) "D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk" <talk@gtalug.org> wrote: > > Most of us in this household use Alpine. Thats a venerable text-based-GUI > mail user agent. I've been using Pine/Alpine since the early 1990s (when > I switched from Berkeley mail (like mailx on Linux)). As you can tell, > I'm quite conservative. I used to say that I changed MUAs every decade, > but I'm behind now.
Hugh, I have been running Sylpheed since 2003. At the time, I was looking for a mail reader that would work offline. This allowed me to read email while sitting at the landromat, disconnected from the internet. In this day of wifi, this is still a useful feature. The time comes when you should reply to the email, hit send-later, and read it through the next day, and possibly edit it, before sending it (or not). Sylpheed is a plain-text email program, which I generally like. Are there any security issues reading rich text and HTML stuff in Thunderbird? Sylpheed has some ability to manage HTML and URLs, and I can pass the email to Firefox. The primary issue I have with Sylpheed is that it uses mail handler (mh) email format. Maybe you like mh! Prior to Sylpheed, I used various mbox email programs like Pine, Balsa kmail, Netscape and some others. I would create symbolic links so that each email program would see the same inbox and archive files. The address books were separate. The only other problem I had was that Netscape did not delete emails. It flipped over some tag which hid the thing from Netscape. The other email programs still saw them. How does Thunderbird behave? -- Howard Gibson hgib...@eol.ca jhowardgib...@gmail.com http://home.eol.ca/~hgibson --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
