On Sun, 13 Apr 2014, Scott Raun wrote:

> A friend of mine had similar requirements, and ended up rolling his own, 
> calling it Sensible Email.  It's available for Linux, Windows, and Mac 
> OSX Cocoa.  It's available on SourceForge at 
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/sensibleemail/
>
> It's an "Email client based on the Eclipse RCP platform", and requires 
> Java 1.6 to be installed and pathed.
>
> I've known John since college (~35 years), I trust his software.
>
> I may install it and try it out sometime - I'm generally happy with 
> mutt, but do have the occasional need to read HTML e-mails, for which my 
> current choices are send to work, invoke links on it via mutt, save the 
> html portion out and read it in my web browser, or jump through hoops to 
> read it in SquirrelMail.  I should find a replacement for SquirrelMail 
> sometime...


I use Alpine, but it is like Mutt in that it also cannot display HTML 
email with images.  The tactic I use to view such messages is to pipe the 
message to mhonarc.  Here's a note I sent to the Alpine list:

http://marc.info/?l=alpine-info&m=132160669800650

I pipe the raw text with free output to this command:

mhonarc -add -nothread -reverse -outdir html -- -

I have a directory called html that holds all the files.  It has been 
working well so far.  Once I have the message saved there, I'll strip off 
the images when I save the message in my usual mail folder.  These 
messages are almost always junk that relatives send with a bunch of 
pictures of cute animals, or children.

I'm sure my text-based Alpine email system seems weird to the young folks, 
but can find any message sent or received in the past 20 years in just a 
few minutes, and they can't.  And there's a lot more than that.  Alpine is 
very fast and easy for a lot of operations.

Mike