[rsync]

I use alpine, exclusively, for my personal and work emails.

It's beautiful, lightweight, efficient and can perform complex operations with keystrokes. Phishing URLs are glaringly obvious, I can quickly view full headers with a press of 'H', and no network traffic (trackers, pixels, counters) is generated by my interaction with the email.

There's one other thing:

If your mailtool runs over SSH and you send email to someone else running their mailtool over SSH on the same system ... the mail delivery is a local copy operation.

Which is to say: no rsync.net internal email has ever traversed a network.

That's nice.

[layer8]

Similar here with Mutt. And I’m happy to report that most emails still come with a text/plain part and don’t force you to use an HTML rendering fallback.

[zzo38computer]

> And I’m happy to report that most emails still come with a text/plain part and don’t force you to use an HTML rendering fallback.

I have received some messages that don't, but in some cases the HTML is written clearly so that the message is still easily readable despite that.