Re:Mutt 1.7.0 released
by john2x on Saturday August 20, 2016 @03:23AM
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I've switched to using Emacs (with mu4e + offlineimap). Composing pretty emails using Orgmode is great. It's even possible to render code snippets with code highlighting taken from your current theme. Attachments handling is pretty great as well. My only problem is rendering of HTML emails is not good. It tries its best, but most of the time it doesn't work (about 50/50 from my experience).
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(mu4e author here)
Mu4e has a few different options for displaying rich-text messages. In recent emacsen, it defaults to a shr/eww based display; it's not perfect, but it reduces the set of problem cases.
For those, there are the view-in-browser action, and with (as of yet unreleased) emacs-25 you can use a webkit-based display embedded in emacs.
With those, I'm able to view just about any message; even the ones I get from airlines etc., which tend to be html-only.
Anyway - to get back to the top-level subject: congratulations to mutt, which is a great e-mail client, and a big influence on mu/mu4e.
Have you tried isync (mbsync), instead of offlineimap?
I found offlineimap slow and crashy, and switched to isync.
Yes, offlineimap crashes every few hours. Not a big deal for me (I don't get a lot of emails), but it is annoying. I'll give mbsync a shot.