On Sat, Apr 04, 2020 at 02:29:02PM -0400, Fred Smith wrote: > When God invented email, He intended that it be plain text! :) > As such, rich-text/html/images in email is the spawn of the devil. :) :)
Ignoring the aspect about sky fairies inventing anything, this is still largely untrue. Sure, in 1973, when RFC 524 (the first RFC related to transfer of electronic messages) was published, there was nothing else but ASCII available to the vast majority of systems capable of handling e-mail. No RFC ever said any such thing as, "e-mail is now and forever shall be ASCII text only." MIME came along in 1992, when people started having more reasonable access to computers that had more capable facilities, and RFC 1521 goes to great lengths to define how e-mail message bodies can be basically any arbitrary data. That was almost 30 years ago folks. And I mean come on--low-tech physical media printing could handle mixed pictures and formatted text long, long before that. It's time to get with the program. I've said it before--I too would love a mutt-based (or mutt-similar) GUI mail client. Frankly, no matter how much I love Mutt (and you know I do), trying to make the case that Mutt's handling of modern, every-day common e-mail messages is anything but clunky and backward is insane. If I could find a GUI mailer that had half the power of Mutt without the crashing/corruption of Claws and similar, I'd marry that software. =8^) I keep thinking I really need to give Kmail another look. Then again, maybe I should just move everything to gmail and be done with it. -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail due to spam prevention. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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