On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 05:38:38PM +0100, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: > During recent months I've joined some mailing lists with fairly good > signal to noise ratio on a specific topic, the only snag being that a > distressingly large number of otherwise sane messages have been > written using mail clients (fsvo) that by default bury the content in > "rich" formatting that makes it hard for old-style mail readers to > cope. > > Telling people off for their choice of mail clients is not an option > (some at least have had that choice made for them), so as a workaround > I probably need to start looking around for a mail client that will > make reading Outlook and peers' output less painful. > > Does such a beast exist, preferably among OpenBSD packages (as in, it > has to run on OpenBSD, but I can build locally if needs be)? > > I've tried and hated both Evolution and Thunderbird, but surely there > must be other choices?
Peter, does mutt (ports/mail/mutt/snapshot I recommend) count as 'old-style' mail reader, too? If so, it feels very modern to me and also is my choice for 'heavy' mail reading. If you are looking for some graphical client you may want to give clawsmail a try (mail/claws-mail).
