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Re: Replacement Email Client



On Sun 25 Oct 2020 at 07:47:33 (+0000), Ed wrote:
> On 2020-10-24 19:35-0400, Dan Ritter wrote:
> > > Any suggestions?  
> > 
> > mutt, with a mailcap that includes:
> 
> +1 for mutt.
> 
> > X-Message-Flag: Cannot contact reaper.nsa.gov. Trying bucket.cia.gov..
> > X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett
> 
> Thanks for the laugh :) but not sure which client you're using ...
> 
> > that gets you a fast, sane mail client which will pop a message into
> > Firefox should you want to view it that way. (Hit "v" while looking
> > at the normal version of the message.  Nothing is going to render HTML
> > better than a browser.
> 
> True. But something makes me itchy about loading spam HTML from 
> anywhere, especially if it is one of those ransomware mails.

You could consider changing the line suggested for mailcap to

  text/html; /usr/bin/lynx -force-html -localhost -stdin

This will render the HTML when desired, and you can list the links,
but they can't be followed.

Cheers,
David.


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