#plaintextemail — Public Fediverse posts

Why is this the only way to write proper plaintext email in proton free tier on desktop?

Step 1: Electronmail (needed because 3 accounts)
Step 2: Set composing to plaintext
Step 3: Use custom CSS to set .editor-textarea max-width to 80
Step 4: Use a border-right on it
Step 5: Compose

If someone here knows of better methods please do tell.

Hydroxide doesn't work. protonmail-python-api or whatever the library name is doesn't work. None of the forks work. It's honestly so annoying that I have to spawn a full electron window or pay up (I'm broke as a joke) to be able to use plaintext email with an org that has some semblance of user privacy.

Tuta has third-party bridges, do they work properly??

#email #plaintextemail #plaintext #protonbridge #protonmail #tuta #tutanota

Now THAT looks like a tutorial I wanted to have: https://blog.gnoack.org/post/lei/

#publicinbox #lkml #plaintextemail #plaintext #email #gitsendemail

@dbellingradt

We had email accounts when I was a PhD student in Cambridge in the late 1980s, but strangely I did not use it. The notion did not appeal to me. Hard for my current I to understand my previous I.

I had my first proper lectureship post in the early 1990s, and at that point email became my main communication tool. Can' remember my first email message on that system.

The university ran on Unix and our email client was elm (not to be confused with the later programming language). From home, remote access was via modem and telnet.

I still think of email as primarily straight text. No formatting except paragraph breaks. I miss elm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elm_(email_client)

#PlainTextEmail

A perfect example why I refuse to use #HTMLemail. My father spotted this email (he's the treasurer for Brisbane WICEN) and noticed the odd figure.

K9-mail would only show the HTML version, which made the scam look _very_ authentic.

I hit the 3 dots and forwarded it as an attachment to my own email address to have a good look. Thunderbird's #PlainTextEmail view laid bare the scam.

#scam #InfoSec

@humanetech
Does #K9Mail do plaintext email?

#plainTextEmail
@k9mail