Email doesn't suck – it's email clients that need improving
Email does suck, at least HTML email. And that&#x27;s not just because HTML was and still is the wrong markup tool for email.<p>I&#x27;m reading most of my mail with mutt on the command line and that works quite well. Until … some email with a confirmation link for something shows up. Or with the wrong MIME structure.<p>Because these confirmation links more often than not are execessivly long, state-carrying links, which wrap around even in my 99 (or more) columns wide windows. Because lazy web designers don&#x27;t use a short SHA key, which would relate to a database entry of the full data. No, they send their complete state.<p>Oh, and did I mention those MIME emails with the wrong structure? Where the first part is the text part telling me that my MUA cannot display their fine mail? It can (easily formatted with external helpers like w3m) but I have to select the 2nd or 3rd part of their &quot;fine&quot; mail first by hand.