On Mon 17 Feb 2025 at 09:02:11 (+0000), Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Sat Dec 28, 2024 at 4:41 AM GMT, hobie of RMN wrote: > > What's the best way to handle this? Switch to Thunderbird or > > claws-mail? > > I switched away from (neo)mutt as my primary mailer a little while > ago, but before I did, I was using netsurf-gtk as a viewer for HTML > mails in mutt. It was not configured as my default browser elsewhere, > so viewing HTML mails from mutt (and spawning netsurf-gtk) did not > interfere with any existing browser sessions I had. > > I might set this up for my current mailer (aerc) at some point. I also > want to look into wrapping it in "unshare" or similar, in order to > disable network access (so HTML emails cannot "phone home")
I do that with lynx -localhost. One consequence is regular communications (sometimes by email!) from some banks etc, complaining that you don't open their emails. Some are so stupid as to offer no way of denying that fact electronically. You may also get unsubscribed from email circulars that you subscribed to. Cheers, David.
