I want to go back to start using email more, like I used to. I am looking into participating more on mailing lists, and overall using email more for communication for which I have been using non-asynchronous apps. I prefer to use the apps provided by the OS, as I have mentioned it before. The thing is, macOS mail app has a couple of things that the “email perfectionist” in me dislikes; a lot. I am one of those, yes. Let’s see:
- No strict threading, that is, using
in-reply-toandmessage-idto properly create threads. It seems that the iOS/macOS Mail app will not exclusively use those, often using subjects to group emails. - No way to set quoted text to start with the venerable
>Internet “standard”. Apple Mail insists on using their colored|.
So, that’s the pickle, my pickle. Will I dust off mutt, or Thunderbird? Ugh, I don’t want to, but…