I've spent the last two years building a new email client

Re:I've spent the last two years building a new email client by jacquesm on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @05:32AM (#16975320)

> Lastly since email today is pure HTML

Where did you get that idea? If your email is pure HTML all I'll see is your markup, if it makes it through the spam filter to begin with which assigns a pretty stiff penalty for sending me HTML mail.

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Re:I've spent the last two years building a new email client by newscracker on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @07:36AM (#16975937)

On a related note, any email that’s “pure HTML” or mostly HTML is something I don’t even open, mainly because such emails tend to be of the marketing and tracking kind, where viewing it would send various signals to the sender. If anyone has something important for me to read, they better put it in plain text.

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Re:I've spent the last two years building a new email client by hjek on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @11:44AM (#16978038)

Exactly. HTML email is a privacy hell[0]. However, many email clients can work around this, e.g. in Mutt you can let Lynx do a plaintext dump of the HTML email.

Also, the whole issue of JavaScript in HTML emails at least deserves a mention[1]. Since Ivelope is an Electron app, I'd guess it would go ahead and just run everything it receives, right?

[0]: https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2017/09/28/i-never-signed-up-f...

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3054315/is-javascript-su...

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Re:I've spent the last two years building a new email client by jacquesm on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @12:48PM (#16978824)

Are there still email clients that run Javascript? I though that idea had been properly murdered a while ago.

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