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

[Yedidyah Bar-David]

On Sun, Jan 08, 2012 at 09:38:21AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 09:15, Yedidyah Bar-David
> <linux-il at didi.bardavid.org> wrote:
> > 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...
> >
> >
> 
> For my personal email I use Thunderbird with text email. Why do you
> want to give up on text email? HTML email is the problem, not text.

Well, at least you and Shachar, which happen to also be the participants
in this discussion - but I think it's just a coincidence, happen to send
html-only to the list. mailman added a signature as text-only, and mutt
shows me the text by default. So I have to 'v' and choose the html part
to see the actual message. But do not take this persoanally - I think
that's a symptom, while the real issue is that no significant part of the
population uses text email, and so those who do see it becoming less and
less comfortable.

BTW, if you were under the impression that you use TB BUT send text only,
you have just discoverred that at least in some cases it sends html even
when you ask it to send text only.

My most recent real issue was with the way some mail clients format the
replies, and the way lynx (also tried others) renders them to text,
which in certain cases makes it impossible to understand who wrote what.
-- 
Didi