HTML mailer for Unix?

[jamapii]

Hi,

I'm looking for a mailer that can compose HTML mail with inline images. This means images that are attached to the mail, not residing on some web server.

Also, (as all my MUAs) it should be able to access the Unix mailbox without emptying it. IMAP support is usually a good workaround.

I tried mozilla, it can't even display such mails correctly, and it seems it wants me to put file:/// URLs into <img> tags...

I tried evolution, I didn't find any slight hint of any kind of HTML support in it.

I tried kmail. In the past, it has always been the most problematic one for me among the usable ones. But I used it for its filtering features. I used to fool it with a symbolic link to handle my unix inbox. Now I tried IMAP. Now kmail seems to access all files in my home directory and blocks the X server. After kill -9 it still blocks the X server, requiring a restart.

squirrelmail doesn't show some mails as HTML even when told to do so (if there's a plaintext version included), I don't think it can compose any.

any alternatives?

[chrismortimore]

I'm pretty sure thunderbird does it. I think eudora did it as well (from my Windows days) and I think there is a Linux eudora available.

[ecatmur]

Evolution has pretty good HTML support. To compose a HTML email just go Format->HTML.
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[jamapii]

Wow, thanks for the replies,

I think evolution can do it. It displayed a html message correctly and after "Compose", there are HTML options. I'll try when I need it again.

Eudora is probably good too, if it can be installed. (from my many-years-old second-hand experience)

Mozilla (and probably thunderbird) did it with the images on a webserver. But I doubt it will be implemented completely (with inline images as attachments), almost nobody composes or even talks about HTML mail except Windows-only users (I just got a mail with a pdf where HTML would have been an option), and even then almost nobody wants to use inline images, and those few who try probably never notice because the file: URLs work locally (headbang-smilie needed here)

EDIT: I found a way to fix kmail.
- Edit .kde/share/config/kmailrc look for the IMAP account.
- Set prefix=/Mail/kmail-hack/
(At this point, it still doesn't work)
- The account has an Id=... save this Id to the copy'n'paste buffer
- There are folders: [Folder ...], delete all those that have the account Id in their name
- save/close the file
- mkdir ~/Mail/kmail-hack
- link the IMAP mailboxes (INBOX.* in ~ or ~/Mail) to this directory

now kmail should start up in finite time