Re: Best mime-aware MUA for reading local (mbox format) mail?

> On Sep 23, 2022, at 11:17, void <void@f-m.fm> wrote:
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> 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?
> 
> 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