[vcf-midatlantic] why all my email is plain text
Ethan O'Toole
telmnstr at 757.org
Fri Jul 2 19:57:31 UTC 2021
> I usually ssh into their NetBSD server and use the PINE email program.
> It's fast, responsive, and allows me to manage my email effectively.
> It also means that it's nearly impossible for malware, spyware,
> tracking cookies and other HTML atrocities to run.
> [admittedly, PINE has a LYNX ability to text-display HTML].
High five fellow Pine mail client user (alpine here!) I have my own server
co-located at a Tier-1 internet facility. Just done it for years. Lots of
friends have shell accounts on it and it usually hits 5 9's of uptime.
Extra capacity if VCF needed something.
I call an external program to look at HTML links that is a just a script
with a pause, so I can copy and paste the URLs that wrap around the
terminal window 17 times.
Used to run NetBSD on it even, but once we went virtualized at the time
BSD didn't behave well so moved off of it. Kind of miss it though.
- Ethan
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