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Caption: c-hey and Twitter DM emails: separated at birth?

It’s nice to see people paying attention to the text version of their multipart/alternative emails. I’ve tried a great deal of IMAP clients, but I still keep coming back to PINE¹, the first client I ever used.

Most text/plain parts of emails are:

• Blank.
  Heads up: if you just send text/html, plain text clients can at least try and render something useful.
• Very badly converted HTML-to-text versions of the HTML.
  Again, most plain text clients can do a better job.
• Links to an HTML version of the email.
  That’s okay, I guess, but I’d rather have the content.

¹ And now with Alpine, it’s available under a useful license. “;tfcron^Madxy” is short for deleting all emails from “Cron” and expunging the current folder. This is where the power is. Alpine is the vi of mail clients.