Re:I've spent the last two years building a new email client
by sp332 on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @11:01AM
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Does that support HTML email and images? If not, it seems like a different domain entirely. Other people in this thread have posted Thunderbird numbers and they're in the ballpark. After all, it is rendered in Gecko similarly to how ivelope is rendered in Electron.
Re:I've spent the last two years building a new email client
by ams6110 on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @11:36AM
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Not directly. You can configure w3m to display HTML email, and it does a nice job within the constraints of text mode. Most normal mail, even with tables, renders well. If you get something really crazy you can pipe the message to a graphical web browser to view.
Native Emacs in a GUI can also show inline images (but not when running in a terminal, obviously).
Re:I've spent the last two years building a new email client
by hjek on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @11:47AM
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Remote images in email is an anti-feature[0]. And if the images are attached to the email, why not just use an image viewer? Does your email client support video playback?
[0]: https://senglehardt.com/papers/pets18_email_tracking.pdf
Re:I've spent the last two years building a new email client
by sp332 on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @12:35PM
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That's fine, but there's no point comparing RAM usage between completely different apps like video players and email clients.
Re:I've spent the last two years building a new email client
by jonnycomputer on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @01:19PM
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Because sometimes discussion centers in and around the images, as in discussion of analysis figures.
Before that I used mutt - also very little.