Linux HTML mail agent with RTL and LTR paragraph explicit support

[Dotan Cohen]

On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Dov Grobgeld <dov.grobgeld at gmail.com> wrote:
> After having suffered with terrible outllook web mail for sending email at
> work for a long time, the system is finally able to accept SMTP connections.

I suggest Thunderbird, for the following reasons:


> So I set out looking for a mail agent that has the following properties:
>
> Ability to send HTML mail.

Thunderbird can do this. Actually, it is the default and I hate it!


> Ability to set the Bidi base direction explicitly of each paragraph.

Of course this is dependant on HTML email. However, unless an email
client lets you edit the HTML and change the dir attribute for each, I
don't think that you will find this feature. For my own use in plain
text mail (should also work in HTML mail) I use the RTL- and
LTR-embedding characters:
http://dotancohen.com/howto/rtl_right_to_left.html#TableOfNonprintingCharacters


> SMTP TLS support for email delivery. (Setting up sendmail to use SMTP TLS
> would also be acceptable.)

Tbird!

> Attachements.

Tbird!

> Reading email. Archiving/threading, etc.

Tbird!

> Actually I would be perfectly happy if I could fullfill these requirements
> within emacs.
>

If you could find a decent text editor for it!

I'm sure that you've seen the recent RTL support added to Emacs.


> Another tool that would be acceptable is something gmail like, that could
> act as a client to POP3/SMTP.
>

You can use Gmail as a client to receive email via POP3 or IMAP, but
you will have to send via Gmail's SMTP servers. I just checked, in the
Gmail web interface with HTML mail, you can set paragraph
directionality for each paragraph!


> So what do you guys use? Does evolution have explicit bidi support?
> Whatabout thunderbird?
>

I love Thunderbird. I have the RTL- and LTR-embedding characters on
hotkeys using this:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/quicktext/

And don't forget the wonderful BiDi Mail UI:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/bidi-mail-ui/

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Dotan Cohen

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