[GTALUG] what MUA do people like? Use?

[Howard Gibson]

On Sun, 21 Mar 2021 11:57:09 -0400 (EDT)
"D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk" <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
> 
> Most of us in this household use Alpine.  Thats a venerable text-based-GUI 
> mail user agent.  I've been using Pine/Alpine since the early 1990s (when 
> I switched from Berkeley mail (like mailx on Linux)).  As you can tell, 
> I'm quite conservative.  I used to say that I changed MUAs every decade, 
> but I'm behind now.

Hugh,

   I have been running Sylpheed since 2003.  At the time, I was looking for a mail reader that would work offline.  This allowed me to read email while sitting at the landromat, disconnected from the internet.  In this day of wifi, this is still a useful feature.  The time comes when you should reply to the email, hit send-later, and read it through the next day, and possibly edit it, before sending it (or not).

   Sylpheed is a plain-text email program, which I generally like.  Are there any security issues reading rich text and HTML stuff in Thunderbird?  Sylpheed has some ability to manage HTML and URLs, and I can pass the email to Firefox.  

   The primary issue I have with Sylpheed is that it uses mail handler (mh) email format.  Maybe you like mh!  Prior to Sylpheed, I used various mbox email programs like Pine, Balsa kmail, Netscape and some others.  I would create symbolic links so that each email program would see the same inbox and archive files.  The address books were separate.  The only other problem I had was that Netscape did not delete emails.  It flipped over some tag which hid the thing from Netscape.  The other email programs still saw them.  How does Thunderbird behave?

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