On 24 August 2017 17:15:25 GMT+02:00, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: >On 24/08/2017 16:50, Dale wrote: >> Mick wrote: >>> On Thursday, 24 August 2017 09:36:43 BST J. Roeleveld wrote: >>> >>>> I can handle HTML emails and won't complain. (As long as they don't >set some >>>> idiotic font or background colours) >>> I don't mind messages which contain both formats and let the mail >client >>> render the content according to the preferences of the recipient; >i.e. a >>> message with: >>> >>> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; >>> >>> which contains: >>> >>> Content-Type: text/plain; >>> and >>> Content-Type: text/html; >>> >>> However, I have found some mail clients, especially Microsoft web >based >>> mailers, send a Base64 blob which *only* contains HTML. I don't >like >>> receiving these and depending on the sender I delete them. >>> >>> >>>> But top-posting when replying to emails makes for unnecessary >difficult >>>> reading. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Joost >>> Top-posting when the message is a threaded conversation does not >help. Some >>> mobile apps and webmail interfaces make it really difficult to >respond inline, >>> so I don't mind being flexible on this matter. >>> >>> PS. I like this list just as it is. Plain text and no-top posting >- thank >>> you. :-) >> >> >> OK. I'm nosy now. Can you folks share what email software you are >> using? Is it GUI based etc? Stable and doesn't change settings to >> something stupid like Seamonkey/thunderbird just did. >> >> To put it simply, I'm considering switching away from Seamonkey here >and >> just may do it. One thing I'd like tho, being able to transfer my >> emails from Seamonkey to whatever new program I'm using. When I >> switched from Kmail, I was able to do that, can't recall how now. >> >> Just curious as to my options here. May as well learn some stuff >while >> we on the topic. ;-) > >Thunderbird. > >I have no formatting or storage problems as local mail is kept in >dovecot imap folders and every client out there can read them. MUA >incompatibilities just do not happen to me anymore. > >I prefer my MUA to be a reader and an editor and a sender and a >fetcher. >Never a storer.
I use Cyrus IMAP for storage and postfix for SMTP. My mail clients only use IMAP and SMTP to my own server. With multiple devices, local storage makes no sense. -- Joost -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
