[msgodel]

Yeah I was just about to suggest mutt. You can always just | elinks --dump | less for html email.

IMO not having clickable links in email is actually a plus.

[atmosx]

There was a tool shared on "Show HN" that used a lightweight, local LLM to convert any web page into plain text for use with a text-based browser. I suppose something similar could be done with mutt as well.