Dovecot and mutt

[Eduardo M KALINOWSKI]

On 26/01/2021 18:18, Rupert Gallagher wrote:
> If someone needs to send a formatted text, then they can use a text 
> editor on headed paper, export to PDF and send it as attachment. E-mail 
> proper is the plain text body of the message. When people send fancy 
> HTML and expect me to read it on my phone, then they have wasted their 
> effort, because the message is too heavy to download, heavy to display, 
> and because I ultimately read e-mails in plain text. And most of the 
> times it is spam.

And yet, ironically, this message you sent is in HTML.

It does have a plain text part, but it's base64 encoded. Not a problem 
for any half-decent MUA, but for those read hardcore users that read 
their mail directly from ~/maildir (or something like that), it's an 
extra decoding step ;-)


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Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
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