Re: [Mail style feedback] ]Re: [dev] Simpler WiFi alternatives [w/ bonus oneliner]

From: Sagar Acharya <sagaracharya_AT_tutanota.com>
Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2023 07:22:50 +0200 (CEST)

OpenSMTPD, the only sanely configurable mailserver.

I use nano and mousepad. They are extremely minimal and fantastic! I need just some basic features in an editor like syntax highlighting, block indent and it's reverse, ability to edit :P , and nothing more!
Thanking you
Sagar Acharya
https://humaaraartha.in



1 Jul 2023, 01:20 by fossy_AT_dnmx.org:

>> On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 11:14:56AM -0400, fossy_AT_dnmx.org wrote:
>> > > Hey, Fossy,
>> > >
>> > > please be mindful of how you style your e-mails, when there is a quoted
>> > > text, it is necessary to have an 'arrow' [>] at the start of each line,
>> > > otherwise it is not considered a quoted text. For example, this part:
>> > >
>> > > > > I don't think anyone is shocked by your messages. They just come
>>
> off as
>
>> > > > crass. Imagine going to a conference in real life and one of the
>> > > > speakers goes on a 10 min rant filled with swearing and irrelevant
>> > > > material halfway through his talk. Some people might be offended.
>>
> Most
>
>> > > > would be thinking "why am I wasting my time on this idiot?".
>> > >
>> > > means that only the first line is from the e-mail you have responded
>>
> to,
>
>> > > the other four are from your very own keyboard (quoted in this case
>> > > because I am responding to that text).
>> > >
>> > > It's not a super huge deal, but it can mess up for example my
>>
> highliting
>
>> > > in neomutt and could confuse some threading in different mailing
>>
> clients.
>
>> > >
>> > > To see the messed up highlight, see attached image.
>> > >
>> > > Have a good one.
>> > > --
>> > > # Marcel Plch
>> > >
>> > > () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail
>> > > /\ - against proprietary attachments
>> > >
>> > > ## What is that .asc attachment on my e-mails?
>> > >
>> > > * https://gnupg.org/
>> > >
>> > > ## Contact:
>> > >
>> > > * Website: https://plch.xyz
>> > > * Gitea: https://gitea.plch.xyz/dormouse
>> > > * Matrix: _AT_dormouse:matrix.org
>> >
>> >
>> > Hi!
>> >
>> > Alright..
>> > I did know it looked weird, but I thought it was fine because I use a
>>
> dodgy
>
>> > "dark-net" e-mail provider anyways, so the lining looked weird..
>> >
>> > So how I do it is download the file (don't bother copy-pasting, new-line
>> > doesn't get included so everything just gets joined in one line), and
>>
> then
>
>> > do a
>> > pipe to `sed 's/^/> /'`.
>> > I format my lines to 79c if it matters.
>> >
>> > But I think everything breaks on the e-mail client in the browser...
>>
> after
>
>> > all,
>> > I don't support ShitScripts in browsers, not have it enabled.
>> >
>> > I'll play a bit with e-mail web-site settings and see if that helps.
>> >
>> > Thanks for pointing it out, I do care how I look (starting from yesterday
>> > :P).
>> >
>> > EDIT: Ah, I know what happens.. I need to somehow get sed to split lines
>> > into multiple ones before appending the '> '.. because the e-mail client
>> > also splits them above 76 or something like that.. cool client, but fucks
>> > up shit like this.
>> >
>> > Any command or rather utility to do that? I'm looking at either sed with
>> > brackets somehow, or probably something like `split`, `tr`? :/
>> >
>> >
>>
>> Just get a better e-mail provider. dnmx is cool when you need top-notch
>> anonymity, but this is just a regular dev forum.
>>
>
> I deny non-top-notch anonymity not only because I consider it
> immoral/unfair to
> myself, but also because my life depends on it.
> I've said/made/shared things with solid logic/linked evidence that puts
> governments and/or corporations in ugliest/darkest/evilest of lights, if that
> makes sense.. as well as done a few fun things such as denying the law
> manipulation over my life :).
>
>
>> I host my own and stuff works fine. (Dovecot, fetchmail, neomutt)
>>
>
> I am considering running my own suckless e-mail server, but only and only
> after
> I make my computers go trough a router/firewall rules to be 100% sure
> there are
> no clear-net leaks possible :-).
>
> I heard that e-mail software is usually ultra-complex?
> How hard can it be?
> suckless.org has 'Mail clients', but I see no 'Mail servers'. What is
> recommended?
>
>
>> Vim has a nice feature for formatting text, you just visually select block
>> of text, press Gq and all text is <80c per line. Neomutt even passes some
>> argument to vim so that it trims lines automatically.
>>
>
> Vim is also bloated as hell at over 700000 SLOC (including comments and
> everything, wc -l).. I'd rather just use pre-installed `vi`..
> I did use Vim in the past. I do miss it, that's why I started my own text
> editor that will be (I hope) as minimalistic as Vi, but as functional as Vim.
> I seen there's vim-tiny or something? But I don't trust it to be suckless.
>
>
>> It's fairly easy to get really frustrated without even realizing it if
>> things just don't work and you keep to work around them all the time.
>>
>
> Pretty much my life :) (there eye problem I have for >1year).
> I miss programming and feeling like a god creating my little, meaningful
> universe.
>
>
>> * Website: https://plch.xyz
>>
>
> Damn, you look chill. Share that calmness immediately!
> I love people having their own web-sites, especially when they self-host,
> especiallyx2 if it's over a holy-net(such as I2P)
>
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