Patrick Bartek wrote: > > Hi! All, > > Looking for recommendations for a lightweight email client that will > handle HTML as well as plain text to replace Claws-Mail. Have been > using Claws-Mail for years and before it Sylpheed. Claws used to have > a basic HTML plugin renderer which was sufficient, but latest version > does not. And I'm getting more and more important emails in HTML where > just the plain text is insufficient to fully read the email. That is, > text in (or as) images contain some (or much) of the content, etc. > Also, hate accessing email through a browser. So that option is out. > > Both Thunderbird and Balsa have been rejected as T'bird is a behemoth > and no longer in development; and with Balsa, I don't want to have to > deal with GNOME-systemd, etc. dependencies. (I don't run GNOME anyway, > only a window manager Openbox, and use sysvinit and not systemd as > init.) > > Any suggestions?
mutt, with a mailcap that includes: text/html; /usr/bin/firefox %s;test=test -n "$DISPLAY"; needsterminal; and a .muttrc that includes: auto_view text/html alternative_order text/plain text/enriched text/html 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. -dsr-
