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0 pointsyjftsjthsd-h8y ago0 comments

This may or may not help, but ex. mutt lets you read HTML mail by running it through lynx/elinks/w3m [0], and I've had great success with this in a mostly-Outlook environment. I expect you could do the same thing with other clients.

[0] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mutt#Viewing_HTML

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fulafel8y ago

Mutt is terrible for imap on a laptop, it hangs and loses changes when the connection dies. Or has this been fixed?

yepguy8y ago

I don't know if it's been fixed, but I recommend pointing mutt at an offline copy of your mail instead of directly at an IMAP server. Use isync or another program to sync your mail.

ognyankulev8y ago

When your mailbox is many gigabytes and you have small SSD, this is out of questions. Using IMAP allows only mail headers to be locally preserved.

craftyguy8y ago

This doesn't really work if you have multiple systems you want to access your mail from. There's no way to keep those systems in sync with each other, some folks fake it with dropbox-like services, but that's honestly not much different than just pulling over imap each time you open the mta...

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dmix8y ago

I don't know anyone who uses Mutt directly for imap.

Every guide I've read recommends using imapsync and msmtp for sending.

http://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/10/the-homely-mutt/#getting-e...

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