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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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