funzis

> I mean, I too used to enjoy reading email in a terminal. It felt fun twenty years ago. Over a modem connection. But I really don't think we can go back to it, and even less should we romanticize it as if that was "the true old days."

Why? I've used mutt as my primary email client for 12 years now. I get that most people aren't interested by that, nor am I trying to tell you you should do it, but I'd at least like to point out that it's fully possible, and I have no problem dealing with HTML mail. I have yet to see a killer feature that would move me away from mutt---or an incompatibility of mutt that causes enough of a problem to switch.

I was fortunate enough to pass through Brattleboro once and I have to agree, it is a beautiful charming little town. I would love to go back sometime.

I've been using mutt as my only email client for over 10 years now. You are right that a lot of emails are HTML only, but you can use something like w3m or lynx to render the HTML inside of mutt, and it is pretty rare that images in emails actually matter. (Mostly they are company logos or other non-useful crap...)