Dovecot and mutt

[Darac Marjal]

On 25/01/2021 09:08, Rupert Gallagher wrote:
> It would be useful to automatically de-HTML e-mails, but this is not a
> task for dovecot. Even more useful would be to deprecate HTML in e-mails.

Why would it be useful to deprecate HTML in emails? Presumably you're
arguing for an alternative, more restricted markup language such as
Enriched Text[1], Markdown[2]? Mutt already supports Enriched Text, but
is probably the most popular MUA which does. I'm not aware of an MUA
that natively renders Markdown bodies - most of the tutorials I see
about that involve composing the message in Markdown and then converting
it to HTML for sending - but to be honest, at this point the effort is a
bit late. Realistically, how are you going to render that Markdown text
in a Graphical MUA? Either you're going to write a custom control which
renders the markup as styled text (that is, converts **bold** to a
bold-face font etc) or you're just going to run the Markdown through a
Markdown->HTML converter and pass it to a Web Browser component (both
the converter and the renderer are "solved problems" so guess which
solution developers would choose), in which case, what's the point of
going "around the houses"?


[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enriched_text

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown


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> -------- Original Message --------
> On Jan 20, 2021, 13:58, @lbutlr < kremels at kreme.com> wrote:
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>     On 20 Jan 2021, at 04:33, Piotr Auksztulewicz <dcml at hasiok.net> wrote:
>     > On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 04:27:11AM -0700, @lbutlr wrote:
>     >> set imap_pass = "lasH-hds[er$asd" # Not a real password
>     >
>     > Use single quotes around the password. Double quotes make $asd to be
>     > interpreted as shell variable and replaced with (most likely) empty
>     > string, so you get a shortened passwort in effect.
>
>     This worked, thank you.
>
>     Also… grrrrr. Who though expansion inside a password string was a
>     clever idea and can I introduce them to a clue bat? :p
>
>     > PS. Also a mutt lover :-)
>
>     With the amount of HTML mail out there I really don't understand
>     how people are able to use it anymore. Now, if I could get a 'stip
>     html down to plain text' side function to work…
>
>     script execution error (#127): sh: line 3: fortune: command not found
>
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