Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2022 12:54:27 -0700 From: Dan Mahoney <freebsd@gushi.org> To: void <void@f-m.fm> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best mime-aware MUA for reading local (mbox format) mail? Message-ID: <D5DBE778-EAE5-4877-9318-70BB05657721@gushi.org> In-Reply-To: <Yy34QpGWtwPb2P22@void.f-m.fm> References: <CAGBxaXnq5S-FWwzC9sOnGXz5XBRkUxOiZM9BhOnU_dP%2BpGX10Q@mail.gmail.com> <Yy34QpGWtwPb2P22@void.f-m.fm>
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> On Sep 23, 2022, at 11:17, void <void@f-m.fm> wrote: >=20 > On Fri, Sep 23, 2022 at 04:23:07AM -0400, Aryeh Friedman wrote: >> I often send mime mail (image attachments and such) to myself and = need >> a MUA that can display the attachments so I can visually debug the >> code that does the sending. What, if any, ports would be helpful >> here? >=20 > I use mutt in a console or in a shell via ssh. If I need to see > an attachment, I'll either pipe it to a program or save the attachment > and then run whatever is suitable for viewing it. That might be too > much effort for some use cases. What environment are you reading email = in? My workflow is 20-something years old but still heavily involves gnu = screen, alpine (and previously, pine). Back in the days when dialup was = a thing, and attachments took time -- and when you had the problem of = getting your mail on multiple computers, pine over telnet/ssh was still = the fastest way to have history on all my things. Since then, I still = find it to be faster at searching the inbox than most other programs. Since my mac also seems hellbent on downloading and badly indexing every = single folder in my imap collection, I've done some Stupid Dovecot = Tricks to not expose all of ~/mail to it, because my message history = goes back 20 years. Since you mentioned MIME, I have a little extension I've added. My pine install runs on my box where I also have a webserver in = ~/public_html -- so I have a viewer defined for long urls that may need = to be clicked in a "real" browser (i.e. not Lynx), and it both displays = a URL I can command-click in my ssh app, as well as a terminal-based QR = code (like, made of whitespace blocks) that I can use with my phone. It = would be trivial to adapt that viewer to also display images the same = way. Some terminals (like iTerm) actually have support for inline image = display in some situations as well. -Dan=
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