Subject: Re: Wow -- replying with pine is amazing.

From: Matt Ackeret <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 11:57:46 -0800 (PST)

>On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Kenneth Crudup wrote:
>>On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Satya wrote:
>>> People say Pine lacks HTML support.
>>Really? When I used to use "mailx" (which I had for about 15 years), the
>>encroaching use of the dreaded HTML (no doubt brought on by people using
>>Microsoft VirusSpreader- er LookOut!) meant I tossed your message. Now,
>>Pine lets me see it sanely (now I don't have throw 'em away!)
>>Like Satya said, "Kudos to the Pine Dev team!"
>
>A dissenting opinion:
>
>  HTML mail is evil.  Mail clients have no business parsing
>  HTML, period.  Adding this misfeature was a terrible move
>  on the part of the Pine dev team.  Boo!  Hiss!

I think HTML mail is evil too, but once in a while I get non-spam mail
with only an html part.  I'm glad that I can view it, even if I will
often ask the person to turn off html email.

But I think I'm missing something.  Is pine really viewing html
email?   I have a .mailcap file, and it has:
text/html; links %s;needsterminal

in it.  Isn't that line telling pine to use links as the viewer for text/html
parts?   or is that only when I specifically go to the view attachments
page and select a text/html part?

What I still don't get is why I sometimes get mail with a bunch of parts,
and I *see* it in the normal pine view, but when I try to reply, the text
isn't there to reply to and it's all listed as attachments.

Lastly, the only other act-sensibly-with-rich-text-mail improvement that
I'd like to see is for pine to be able to transmogrify "rich text
quoted mail"  [I think it uses <quote></quote> blocks, which can be
nested] into normal ">" style quoted text that I can edit in vim when I reply.]
This is the ONE case where I often use a GUI mail program, when I get
mail like that.

pine doesn't do anything with format=flowed, does it?