Ploum included the reply command in Offpunk, and that changed the way he approached the network. Awesome.

Plaintext emails are slowly becoming an artifact of the past. Still, there’s a lot interesting things about plaintext emails. Including... plaintext-only formatting!

On inboxes as application-specific todo lists.

Request web pages and other documents through email. They get turned into plain text, sadly, and Unicode gets removed.

via Devine in this cool Merveilles thread by Luci who thought of something similar:

• https://merveilles.town/@zens/112849957122568227

HTML for email is probably the hardest code to write. Even a teeny-tiny deviation from the rules will break the email in untold combination of os/desktop/mobile clients.

It's mid 2024. Almost 50 years since email was invented and 35 years since HTML was born. A 'basic-open-source-HTML-email-designer' must be a solved problem, right? We thought so too.

Sadly, that's not the case.

There are a few decent open source email designers but they carry dependencies that make them cumbersome to embed within your app. That's why we decided to open source our HTML Email Designer.

The SENDUNE email designer focuses on simplicity and ease of use. It is light-weight. It does pure HTML - no intermediate code wranglers like mjml. There is no lock-in of any kind. Save HTML output as a template and use with ANY email service provider.

Trying to make the case for permanent irrevocable digital identities, which unfortunately today, by de-facto, are email addresses.

Overcoming limitations of text email.

2010-era discussion. They generally agree it's a bad netiquette. Here in 2020-era I agree.

Now I use my inbox as a to do list of sorts. Emails are only there as long as they're relevant. Confirmation of a table reservation at a restaurant? It's at most relevant until the date of the booking has past. Archive it.

A recent article has prompted me to rethink my position on self-hosted email as being a lost cause. I may be coming to a different conclusion than its author.

A response to 738.

You cannot set up a home email server.

You cannot set it up on a VPS.

You cannot set it up on your own datacenter.

an email-based bookmarking service

Nobody gets it nowadays :-( This article is very old and probably lying. The microformats wiki is not even up-to-date, full of cruft.

Convert email newsletters into Atom feeds.