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open source terminal client for email for linux! does that exist?? (lemmy.today)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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i was just wondering because i do talk to my friends most of the time through email and since gmail lets you add mpop and mop3 to email clients i figured it would be an interesting idea to use an email client on the terminal with built in notifications and stuff, thanks so much

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is it really practical in 2024? I used pine as my sole e-mail client for many years.

In the last 15 years it feels like every mail expects the client to be able to render html, with no real fallback for text-only. Even when my client only blocks remote images some mail can be quite hard to decipher.

Company handbook even requires me to have a html signature with a picture of the company logo.. before that I've militantly only sent text-only e-mail.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

They can render HTML now. 😉

Pretty sure the pine rewrite called alpine can: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpine_(email_client), but mutt certainly can.