[gentoo-user] Re: email client: was: Experiences with Flatpak?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2019-01-25, Jack <ostroffjh@×××××××××××××××××.net> wrote:
> On 2019.01.25 13:48, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> I'm shopping for an IMAP email client that does a decent job of
>> handling HTML.  After doing a bit of reading I decided the first one
>> to try would be Geary.
>
> I can't help you with flatpack, but have you tried balsa for an email
> client?  I mostly use it with POP3, but it DOES do IMAP, and although
> the default setup (at least as I have it set) is to prefer text over
> HTML, it does do HTML.  However, on reply or compose, I'm pretty sure
> it's text only, in case that's a show stopper for you.

It sort of is.  Though I prefer text-only (and use mutt as my primary
MUA) there are many situations when sending text-only is not
acceptable because Outlook doesn't render it well.  I'm currently
running emails sent via mutt through a utility to format markdown
source as alternative text-only and HTML, but that has some drawbacks
as well -- hence my search for a secondary MUA with good HTML support.

-- 
Grant Edwards               grant.b.edwards        Yow! My haircut is totally
                                  at               traditional!
                              gmail.com