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Re: What's best way to handle HTML emails in Mutt



On Mon, Feb 17, 2025 at 10:22:30 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 2/17/25 9:58 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 17, 2025 at 09:40:31 -0600, David Wright wrote:
> > > I do that with   lynx -localhost. One consequence is regular
> > > communications (sometimes by email!) from some banks etc,
> > > complaining that you don't open their emails. Some are so
> > > stupid as to offer no way of denying that fact electronically.
> > > You may also get unsubscribed from email circulars that you
> > > subscribed to.
> > 
> > Yes.  I ran into this issue myself, with a mailing list that I had
> > subscribed to.  That list is run by Mailchimp, and they send multipart
> > HTML/text messages, with tracking image URLs in the HTML part.  If
> > you only read the text part, they never receive their tracking info,
> > and after some unspecified time period, they conclude that you aren't
> > reading their messages.  Then they silently unsubscribe you *AND*
> > blacklist your email address so that you can't re-subscribe after you
> > figure out what the problem is.
> > 
> > So, now that I've re-subscribed under a new email address, I make an
> > effort to copy the HTML part back to my desktop PC and open it in a
> > web browser, to make sure they know I'm reading it.  Pain in the ass,
> > is what it is.
> 
> Did you tell the "offending" originator of the problem?
> Since the originator is in business to make money tell them they are wasting
> bandwidth {i.e. *DOLLARS* spent} and annoying potential customers {i.e.
> unrealized *DOLLARS* due to lost sales}.

The people running the mailing list are aware.  They've tried to
re-subscribe me, to no avail.  They're not super tech savvy, and they're
doing their best.  I'm probably the only terminal MUA user on their
mailing list, so now that I know what the problem is, my workaround is
the best we're going to get.

If you meant "Have you contacted Mailchimp", then no, I haven't.


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