On Wed, 22 May 2019 15:40:15 +0000 "Dan Ciprus (dciprus)" <dcip...@cisco.com> wrote:
> If you are a mobile user then things are a bit more complex. I have machines in two countries (work and home) and I like to have all the email in both places so I can get to it. I have a subset of the accounts on a phone also. > If you prefer to have your emails/accounts stored at the same place - > desktop machine for example > - then offlineimap/fetchmail/mbsync is your way to go. There is no > limit on user accounts with this solution. Things might get a bit > more complex when it comes to gmail accounts where daddy Google needs > to have a control even on what keys you are pressing - disabled > pop3/imap support. I'm a google-avoidist, so no additional burden there ;) > As far as searching this mess: notmuch would be something I would > recommend .. To be honest I don't search much. If I do, I just use grep in a shell and then figure out how to find the email in the client. > HTML support - unfortunately for us, this is going to get worse in > coming years. People seem to like more colors/fonts/pictures than > actual value of the thought put in to the text person is sending. That's exactly my impression. > You can have external browser showing you the email - that's for viewing > it. For editing it - I have not found better solution than writing > markdown and then translating it via pandoc to html format. With this > editing you will obviously break an email which you are responding > to ... No problem, they deserve it. Anybody dumb enough to send me HTML is going to be lucky to get a reply at all. And if they do get a reply it's going to be ASCII text with their POS HTML garbled as a quoted response :P /jl
