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FossaMail ( https://www.fossamail.org/ ) announced that they will be shutting down next month, and I must search for a replacement email program again. So far, my research for replacements found Claws Mail, and Slypheed, but are there any other stand alone email programs that are being updated? One other requirement is PGP support for encrypted messages.
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Can anyone remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce?
(Score: 5, Informative) by aristarchus on Sunday April 23 2017, @08:24AM (7 children)
Here is my lawn, stay the hell on it! E-mail is text only, ascii, no html, no javascript. Thus, no need for any kind of "webmail" interface. Give me a client, one I can configure and control as I see fit. Anyone using "ConstantContact" or "MailChimp" are enemies of humanity, and are to be shot on sight. Just because you call it "marketing", that does not mean you are not a spammer. Bastards. And you think I may want to view your message in a browser? Why the fuck would I want to to that, unless I was willing to have you execute all kinds of code on my system, without my explicit permission, and at my expense? What the fuck do you think I am, a Windows Ten user?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 23 2017, @08:51AM (1 child)
Here is my lawn, stay the hell on it!
Occupy My Lawn is a thing now? OK dude. Lemme park my trailer home. Wanna see the sword that killed Lincoln?
(Score: 3, Funny) by aristarchus on Sunday April 23 2017, @09:05AM
Perhaps I was not clear: get your html e-mail off my lawn!!!
Wanna see the sword that killed Lincoln?
Obvious fake! Everyone knows, from Bill O'Really's book, that the Vampire Slayer got killed with his own magical rail-splitting axe!
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday April 23 2017, @01:20PM (1 child)
I used an email client for years that was HTML. I'm having a brain fart at the moment, and can't name the damned thing right now. Oh - Pegasus Mail. I think it was Windows only, but I could be wrong. I was still on dial up, with more or less intermittent access to the internet. I could save all my mail, from all of my accounts, on my machine, read it, compose email to send later if/when I had internet, whatever.
If you are making the point that email SHOULD only be text, I sorta agree, but not 100%. I've gotten used to viewing images, without opening a separate application to do so. And, PDF's. Attachments can be dangerous, but since I don't have any adobe or microsoft software on my machine, the danger is rather minimal. I'll open attachments that I'm expecting, as well as attachments from trusted sources. Of course, NEVER OPEN ATTACHMENTS FROM UNTRUSTED AND/OR UNKNOWN SOURCES!! But, I think everyone here already knows that, right?
Agree 100% about javascript though. That, and cross site scripting, should both die.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by noneof_theabove on Sunday April 23 2017, @05:54PM
Pegasus Email is still around at pmail.com
Along with its counter part Mercury Mail Server.
Yes, Windows ONLY but I have never tried it in WINE on Linux.
Much more configurable than web-mail.
If I remember Yahoo! the overload of spam only allows 25 in the blacklist with is not comprehensive.
Running Mercury in front of any email client lets you aggregate many mail pulls from IMAP and POP, then do a much better customizing of deliver.
Use it from 1999 until I retired in July 2014 and the pmail.com has updates from April 2017.
Just my $0.01.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by butthurt on Sunday April 23 2017, @03:23PM
> E-mail is text only, ascii, no html [...]
No Greek alphabet, then?
(Score: 2, Interesting) by MikeVDS on Sunday April 23 2017, @05:12PM (1 child)
Serious Question:
My company uses MailChimp, and I hate it. What is a very user friendly way to replace it?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday April 23 2017, @06:28PM
Tell them you want mailchimp out, but not around blacks, because "chimpout" will be all that they hear.