Re: Replacement Email Client

[ed <ed-debian@s5h.net>]

On 2020-10-25 01:51-0700, didier gaumet wrote:
> It seems that in the past, Debian provided the claws-mail-fancy-plugin 
> package (a GTK2 HTML viewer).
> That is no longer the case but Debian is now providing  the claws-mail-dillo-viewer (a Dillo HTML viewer), and in addition to this, from Bulleye on, will be providing the claws-mail-litehtml-viewer package (a HTML viewer based on the litehml library).
>  https://packages.debian.org/search?suite=all&section=all&arch=any&searchon=all&keywords=claws+html

Sylpheed/Claws is very good. I did like the way that part of the mail 
could be selected for quoting with the mouse before pressing reply.

I stopped using Claws in favour of mutt some time back as text only mail 
reduced the visible spam, and most spam mail has some image content. 
Valid mail seems to have a good text/plain part, and those that don't 
tend to be readable with a lynx mailcap.

There's also a larger attack surface, if that bothers, with all the 
additional code required for page rendering. The next thing after 
needing to view mail that is HTML based is requiring something that can 
do javascript for some reason for modern web 2.0 compatibility. Heading 
down that route is moving the minimum communication requirements further 
away from people who are visually impaired. There will come a day when 
my eyes start fail me.

This is a preference though, if a GUI reader is required, Sylpheed 
variants seem good.

Ed