[bawolff]

Good luck running a mail client - you know, a program that takes html documents and renders them, because modern email is html - without running a browser.

In any case, thunderbird essentialy has a lineage going back all the way to netscape navigator (at least spiritually), so it was doing this way before electron was cool.

[ars]

alpine for the win! It can render some html, enough that I rarely need to open an email with an actual browser.

But some emails are mainly images with little text, and then I have to export the email.