Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Mon, 26 Oct 2020 21:23:59 -0400 > Carl Fink <ca...@panix.com> wrote: > > I don't know if there is a <form> or not. Someone else suggested > that. It may be javascript. Never checked email's code all that > closely. Next time I get one of those type emails, I'll look. > > > I think you're getting normal email with a link to a form, but (as > > you say) Dillo doesn't let you click the link, so you never realize > > what it is. Those "rate us from 1-5" things are normally five > > different links to the same online poll, with a parameter telling the > > page what rating you selected. If You opened the links in an > > HTML-aware mailer like Mutt, you could just select one of those to > > open the form in a browser. > > Yes, sometimes when I use a browser for these HTML emails and click on > something, a new tab with a new URL opens. Sometime not. Next time, > I'll check the code. > > Not that it matters all that much. All I want is a lightweight email > client that works with HTML emails, too, so I don't have to switch back > and forth to a browser, login, etc. to get things done.
I don't think you're going to get it. You can't get everything right with a web page these days with anything less than a second-rank browser. (First rank: Chrome/Chromium, Firefox, IE/Edge/Chromium; second rank: Opera, Brave, derivatives of first-rank and derivatives of old versions of first-rank. Third-rank: everything else, including anything that doesn't support modern JavaScript and HTML5.) No browser in the first or second rank is light-weight. QED. You can: - Use a webclient, including a very lightweight webclient like Rainloop. Rainloop literally does not store anything on the server side; it runs in your browser. It's great for small, well-organized IMAP accounts; terrible if you hoard millions of messages. - Use a good MUA and resign yourself to occasionally sending an email to a browser. Despite your protestations of "logging in", having a browser display your email requires no such thing. The MUA saves the email to a file, then hands the file to the browser to open it. - Write your own and make the world a better place! -dsr-
