Flummic5d ago
Bastian Greshake Tzovaras

«Microsoft and Google are working hard to make sure you hate email and hate building a website. But we don’t have to obey. We can enjoy writing lightweight HTML and sending quick emails to each other. We have the right to read, write, and have social fun without Javascript and centralized platforms. We have the duty to keep this torch lit.»

Honestly, the whole small/indie web has been the most fun I've had with technology in a long while.

https://ploum.net/2026-03-20-social-smolnet.html

The Social Smolnet

The Social Smolnet par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.

Mar 21 at 2:44amWeb
Show threadティージェーグレェ5d ago
I think the last MUA (Mail User Agent [what sysadmin sorts call email clients]) I enjoyed? Was elm.

Sure, I made use of pine. Arguably, I still think pico is one of the better TUI text editors (and the creation of nano, continues to confuse me).

I remember when thenewsh mentioned how Microsoft, broke Exchange's IMAP support with pine (the reference IMAP client). That was back when I used to get paid to administer an Exchange server from an employer (unfortunately, I would have other employers who also ran that awful MTA [Mail Transfer Agent, what we sysadmin sorts refer to email servers]). Of note: there is not a single employer I had, which ran Exchange, which did not also run other MTAs, in front of Exchange, as a matter of security, for antispam and such. Exchange has always been, and presumably will always be: the worst email server ever. Take that from someone who hates sendmail enough I usually referred to it as "sendwhale" as a pejorative. Take that from someone: who had a UUCP email address, before an SMTP address.

I concede, that mutt continued to make TUI MUAs, usable. Alas, IMHO, HTML in email was an antipattern, and I know whom to blame for it too; but that ship sailed and we're in the worse timeline now.

But, back in the day?

Using elm? Was still the apogee, for me at least.