Alpine allows opening an url in email; using the browser of your choice.
But aside from being tied to a terminal or a text-only virtual console,
Alpine reads email one screenful at a time, making it impossible to
navigate by element, and making it very difficult to skip or eliminate
quoted messages that people mostly on non-screen reader-related lists
like to quote, requote and rerequote 50 times, which gets unwieldy very
quickly. The other problem with screenful reading is that I have no
access to continuous arrow navigation, a SayAll function or something
like paragraph navigation that is usually available in desktop text
editors. It is also more difficult to select, copy and paste parts of a
message using a terminal, although it's not impossible. It's just not
consistent with other desktop applications. For many people these
wouldn't be huge problems, but my personal workflow does require things
to be continuously scrollable and SayAll functionality to be available,
as well as select/copy/paste functionality consistent with other desktop
applications to be available at times. I may have a different view for
my personal use if the message body opened into something similar to
w3m, which is scrollable, especially since element navigation through
email isn't quite as important as it is in a browser and I don't select
parts of messages to be pasted into other files or applications very
often, with the obvious exception of temporary passwords or verification
codes, so perhaps this is a feature that could be proposed for a future
release, unless of course it already exists and I don't know it. The one
possible showstopper for me would of course be threading. Anything that
doesn't support message threading would of course be a deal breaker for
sure. I prefer all threads to be collapsed, and to expend only the
threads I want to read, deleting the entire thread if I'm not interested
in reading it. If Alpine can do this, I could certainly run it on one of
my servers or in my own terminal, possibly as a backup if Thunderbird
fails, although I haven't seen this happen in years.
~Kyle
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