HTML Mail (was: Re: Which technology should I learn to do this?)

[Omer Zak]

[bottom posted, contrary to my usual custom]

On Sun, 2012-01-08 at 09:15 +0200, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 08, 2012 at 08:50:45AM +0200, Dotan Shavit wrote:
> > _______________________________________________
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> 
> Dear Linux-IL subscribers,
> 
> Should I officially give up and declare text email as a thing of the
> past? Should I move to some graphical mail client that displays and
> composes html mail? I tried Thunderbird a few times, for a few days
> each, over the last 5 or so years, and always went back to mutt.
> 
> I see on this list some people that still use mutt. I also have a
> feeling that some of the past users of mutt on this list moved to html
> mail clients.
> 
> I do not intend to start a flame war. Feel free to ignore, give advice,
> share your struggles, etc...

My policy is to send text E-mail (except when I need the extra features
of HTML E-mail) and use a graphical client (Evolution, in my case) to
accept both text and HTML E-mails.

--- Omer
P.S.:  How to export all folders from Evolution to Icedove and
Thunderbird?


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