I am the king of the Luddites.

[serinde]

I just realized that I don't know how to send HTMLified email. Not from webmail-ish clients, anyways.

I sort of slot it in the same bin as knowing how to dissect a mammalian corpse. You might never be called on to do it, though there are sick fucks who do it for fun, but there may come a time in your life when the knowledge is damn necessary.

Edit: I feel slightly better. It turns out Squirrelmail doesn't support inline HTML, at least not by default (there's a plugin we don't seem to have installed), so the fact that I couldn't figure out how to do it is not on the path leading directly to cries of YOU DARN KIDS GET OFF MY LAWN!.

Comments

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

Hey, I still use elm as my main mail program. So make room on that throne.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Me, too. I've tried to 'upgrade' to mutt since `99, but gave up early this year.

[xlerb.livejournal.com]

You know, I can't manage to send HTML mail from mutt. Gnus (and I think all of the other emacs mailers share the relevant code) I'm pretty sure I could do it in, one way or another.

Failing that, I could always try to compose the message by hand, but that'd be the kind of HTML mail with no text part (to which, on the receiving end, I have not been kind) unless I felt like some RFC-diving.

[xlerb.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, you probably don't find yourself reponding to mail from AOL users that had URLs in it, and retaining the entire quoted message "for reference"; there's a mildly entertaining feature of AOL that can be triggered thereby.

[syringavulgaris.livejournal.com]

The OMG S3KR1T seems to be sending the HTML part as an attachment. Yuck.

[syringavulgaris.livejournal.com]

I missed elm entirely--Columbia suckled everyone at the MM teat, and then pine when it came out, from which I was weaned onto mutt and never looked back.

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

I've been told I'd probably like mutt better than pine, and may start shifting over to that eventually. elm is no longer officially supported, but it still works. Can't stand pine. I use Outlook at work, and when I absolutely need to do non-text mail at home there's always my mac.com account (although I try to only use it to send to trusted sorts, one of the benefits it has for me is that there's no spam on it yet).