Re: Replacement Email Client

From	Carl Fink <carlf@panix.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Replacement Email Client
Date	2020-10-27 02:30 +0100
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On 10/26/20 6:16 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Oct 2020 20:45:50 -0400
> Carl Fink <carlf@panix.com> wrote:
>
>> On 10/25/20 8:28 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote:
>>> I'm not referring to viewing HTML emails. I already can do that in
>>> Claws-Mail using its Dillo plugin. I'm talking about filling in
>>> forms, etc. that are part of the HTML email and sending just the
>>> data without "replying" in the normal sense.  This is beyond Claws'
>>> and Dillo's capabilities.  I have to use a real browser, log into
>>> that particular web mail account (like gmail), click on that
>>> particular email, etc. to do so.
>>>
>>> I'm getting the sense that I may not be able to find a client that
>>> can do that.
>> I don't remember ever getting an emailed form that was anything but
>> a link to a web page. Who is sending you emailed inline forms?
> The ones I respond to are known to me and are legit --
> organizations, businesses, government agencies, etc. -- that I do
> business with.  To respond, I must switch to a web browser, login to
> my email account (like gmail), find that particular email, and
> enter the requested data either by keyboard, drop-down menu, buttons,
> etc., then SUBMIT it.  This happens all within the email. I never get
> forwarded to another web site. I always stay on the web mail page. As
> far as I can tell only the data is sent. The email itself is not
> replied to.  That is, there's nothing in the "Sent" folder.

Meaning no offense, I doubt it. I have been using email since before Gopher,
and I have literally never received an HTML  email with an embedded form
(that I opened, at least). I find it hard to believe that you get many 
of them.

I think you're getting normal email with a link to a form, but (as you say)
Dillo doesn't let you click the link, so you never realize what it is. Those
"rate us from 1-5" things are normally five different links to the same
online poll, with a parameter telling the page what rating you selected. If
You opened the links in an HTML-aware mailer like Mutt, you could just
select one of those to open the form in a browser.

At least, I would bet money that this is the case, at even odds.

(I must be old. My fingers wanted to type "Dilly".)

-- 
Carl Fink                           nitpicking@nitpicking.com

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Replacement Email Client Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2020-10-25 01:10 +0200
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                Re: Replacement Email Client Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2020-10-26 23:50 +0100
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              Re: Replacement Email Client Carl Fink <carlf@panix.com> - 2020-10-27 02:30 +0100
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                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
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