Kenneth Porter shiva@sewingwitch.com wrote:
--On Friday, April 15, 2011 8:56 PM -0600 Devin Reade gdr@gno.org wrote:
Check out Mulberry. http://mulberrymail.com/
The main drawback to Mulberry is that it doesn't display images, and its HTML rendering is primitive. But if you're like me and deal primarily in text, and want to only open images and attachments explicitly (good way to avoid infections), Mulberry works great.
I would actually consider the image aspect an advantage rather than disadvantage, but YMMV. Most images in email seem to related to signatures, auto-appended organization, or spam-related (what little slips through my filters). If it's actually an image of interest, I can right-click and select to view or extract it, the former of which uses the OS's default image viewer (eog for CentOS, iirc).
It also avoids the issue of web-bugs put into html email.
Yes, the html rendering is primitive, but I don't usually notice as I have mulberry configured to show the text part of multipart mail, which works just fine in most cases. A few html-only newsletters I get are the only things that are so rendered, and they always have links to online versions.
It's particulary wonderful if you have a huge hierarchy of folders.
Agreed, along with the rest of the observations.
Devin