Re: Replacement Email Client

From	"Jeremy Nicoll" <jn.ml.dbn.25@letterboxes.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Replacement Email Client
Date	2020-10-27 23:30 +0100
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On Tue, 27 Oct 2020, at 21:04, Dan Ritter wrote:

> - Use a good MUA and resign yourself to occasionally sending an 
>   email to a browser. Despite your protestations of "logging
>   in", having a browser display your email requires no such
>   thing. The MUA saves the email to a file, then hands the file 
>   to the browser to open it.

If the email also contained umpteen attachments each of which 
was (typically) an image, then the MUA needs to create a folder
containing the html and the unpacked images.  Depending on 
the way that the html referred to those images, the MUA also 
needs to revise the form of the image references inside the 
written-out html so that the written-out image files can be found
by the browser when it processes the html.  It's not quite as simple
as you make out, especially if the code has to work on multiple 
platforms / file systems.

In my experience such mails are usually forwarded jokes etc, and
another problem is that they often contain forwards of forwards
of forwards (etc) with nested sets of attachments (as a succession
of technically naive users just forward the mail they received, 
rather than creating a new original one with just once set of 
contents).

Some email clients also don't assign separate names to the 
attachments, so when they get written out the MUA has to 
invent a name sequence (and of course modify the html 
accordingly). 

-- 
Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

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Replacement Email Client Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2020-10-25 01:10 +0200
  Re: Replacement Email Client Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2020-10-25 01:40 +0200
    Re: Replacement Email Client Ed <ed-debian@s5h.net> - 2020-10-25 09:00 +0100
      Re: Replacement Email Client Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2020-10-25 15:10 +0100
        Re: Replacement Email Client Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2020-10-25 15:20 +0100
      Re: Replacement Email Client David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-10-25 15:20 +0100
  Re: Replacement Email Client Leslie Rhorer <lesrhorer@att.net> - 2020-10-25 02:00 +0100
    Re: Replacement Email Client Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2020-10-25 18:30 +0100
  Re: Replacement Email Client Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2020-10-25 03:00 +0100
    Re: Replacement Email Client Keith Bainbridge <ke1thozgroups@gmx.com> - 2020-10-25 07:30 +0100
      Re: Replacement Email Client Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2020-10-25 16:00 +0100
    Re: Replacement Email Client Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2020-10-25 18:30 +0100
  Re: Replacement Email Client Mark Allums <maa@allums.com> - 2020-10-25 04:40 +0100
  Re: Replacement Email Client Oliver Schoede <oliver.schode@online.de> - 2020-10-25 06:00 +0100
    Re: Replacement Email Client Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2020-10-25 18:30 +0100
  Re: Replacement Email Client Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> - 2020-10-25 06:30 +0100
    Re: Replacement Email Client John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2020-10-25 14:40 +0100
      Re: Replacement Email Client <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-10-25 15:00 +0100
    Re: Replacement Email Client Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2020-10-25 18:40 +0100
      Re: Replacement Email Client John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2020-10-25 20:10 +0100
        Re: Replacement Email Client Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2020-10-25 21:20 +0100
          Re: Replacement Email Client "Jeremy Nicoll" <jn.ml.dbn.25@letterboxes.org> - 2020-10-25 21:40 +0100
            Re: Replacement Email Client Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2020-10-25 22:10 +0100
        Re: Replacement Email Client Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2020-10-26 01:30 +0100
          Re: Replacement Email Client Carl Fink <carlf@panix.com> - 2020-10-26 01:50 +0100
            Re: Replacement Email Client John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2020-10-26 02:20 +0100
              Re: Replacement Email Client Carl Fink <carlf@panix.com> - 2020-10-26 02:50 +0100
                Re: Replacement Email Client Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2020-10-26 03:00 +0100
                Re: Replacement Email Client Michael <ml@hemathor.de> - 2020-10-26 12:40 +0100
                Re: Replacement Email Client Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-10-26 13:00 +0100
                Re: Replacement Email Client Michael <ml@hemathor.de> - 2020-10-26 13:10 +0100
                Re: Replacement Email Client Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2020-10-26 15:10 +0100
                Re: Replacement Email Client Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-10-26 15:20 +0100
                Re: Replacement Email Client Linux-Fan <Ma_Sys.ma@web.de> - 2020-10-26 15:30 +0100
                Re: Replacement Email Client Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2020-10-26 21:50 +0100
                Re: Replacement Email Client Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-10-26 22:00 +0100
                Re: Replacement Email Client David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-10-26 22:10 +0100
                Re: Replacement Email Client "Jeremy Nicoll" <jn.ml.dbn.25@letterboxes.org> - 2020-10-26 15:30 +0100
                Re: Replacement Email Client Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2020-10-26 16:30 +0100
                Re: Replacement Email Client Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2020-10-26 23:50 +0100
                Re: Replacement Email Client <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-10-27 09:20 +0100
                Re: Replacement Email Client Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-10-27 12:50 +0100
            Re: Replacement Email Client Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2020-10-26 23:20 +0100
              Re: Replacement Email Client Carl Fink <carlf@panix.com> - 2020-10-27 02:30 +0100
                Re: Replacement Email Client Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2020-10-27 10:00 +0100
                Re: Replacement Email Client Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2020-10-27 21:50 +0100
                Re: Replacement Email Client Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2020-10-27 22:10 +0100
                Re: Replacement Email Client "Jeremy Nicoll" <jn.ml.dbn.25@letterboxes.org> - 2020-10-27 23:30 +0100
                Re: Replacement Email Client David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-10-28 05:10 +0100
                Re: Replacement Email Client "Jeremy Nicoll" <jn.ml.dbn.25@letterboxes.org> - 2020-10-28 13:50 +0100
                Re: Replacement Email Client David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-10-29 18:40 +0100
                Re: Replacement Email Client Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> - 2020-11-03 10:00 +0100
                Re: Replacement Email Client conover@rahul.net (John Conover) - 2020-10-28 00:20 +0100
                Re: Replacement Email Client <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-10-28 09:40 +0100
                Free-services lead to increased RAM and CPU requirements (was: Re: Replacement Email Client) rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-10-28 12:20 +0100
                Re: Free-services lead to increased RAM and CPU requirements (was:  Re: Replacement Email Client) Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-10-28 12:50 +0100
                Re: Free-services lead to increased RAM and CPU requirements John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2020-10-28 14:30 +0100
                Re: Free-services lead to increased RAM and CPU requirements Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-10-28 16:00 +0100
                Re: Free-services lead to increased RAM and CPU requirements John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2020-10-28 16:40 +0100
                Re: Replacement Email Client Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2020-10-28 13:30 +0100
                Re: Replacement Email Client John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2020-10-28 14:40 +0100
              Re: Replacement Email Client Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-10-27 12:50 +0100
                Re: Replacement Email Client Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2020-10-27 17:10 +0100
                Re: Replacement Email Client Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2020-10-27 17:20 +0100
                Re: Replacement Email Client John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2020-10-27 17:40 +0100
                Re: Replacement Email Client rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-10-27 20:30 +0100
                Re: Replacement Email Client Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2020-10-27 22:40 +0100
          Re: Replacement Email Client conover@rahul.net (John Conover) - 2020-10-26 06:00 +0100
      Re: Replacement Email Client Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> - 2020-10-27 14:00 +0100
  Re: Replacement Email Client ghe2001 <ghe2001@pm.me> - 2020-10-25 07:00 +0100
    Re: Replacement Email Client <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-10-25 09:10 +0100
      Re: Replacement Email Client grumpy@mailfence.com - 2020-10-25 11:50 +0100
        Re: Replacement Email Client Kenneth Parker <sea7kenp@gmail.com> - 2020-10-25 12:00 +0100
          Re: Replacement Email Client Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> - 2020-10-25 12:10 +0100
            Re: Replacement Email Client Kenneth Parker <sea7kenp@gmail.com> - 2020-10-28 05:50 +0100
  Re: Replacement Email Client didier gaumet <didier.gaumet@gmail.com> - 2020-10-25 10:20 +0100
    Re: Replacement Email Client ed <ed-debian@s5h.net> - 2020-10-25 12:20 +0100
    Re: Replacement Email Client Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2020-10-25 19:00 +0100
      Re: Replacement Email Client didier gaumet <didier.gaumet@gmail.com> - 2020-10-25 20:10 +0100
        Re: Replacement Email Client Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2020-10-26 01:10 +0100
          Re: Replacement Email Client mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2020-10-26 06:50 +0100
          Re: Replacement Email Client <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-10-26 10:50 +0100
  Re: Replacement Email Client Michael <ml@hemathor.de> - 2020-10-25 13:20 +0100
    Re: Replacement Email Client Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2020-10-25 19:10 +0100

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