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Author: Timo Buhrmester
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To: Edward Bartolo
CC: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Which email client can I use to properly quote emails?
> What email client do you suggest me to use so that I can properly
> quote previous replies?

Mutt.

> I use gmail's classic webmail interface as my computer lags with the
> newer webmail interfaces.

Well, todays browsers are huge, I'd expect any webmail interface to
feel sluggish. Same goes for Thunderbird.

> do not wish to use a paid email service

Yes, that would be ridiculous.


Here's what has been used to write to this list (I've been subscribed
pretty much from the start)
| $ grep -rl '^List-Id.*dng.lists.dyne.org' ~/.maildir/cur | xargs grep -hEi '^(x-mailer|user-agent):' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -n10
| 519 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101
| 348 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)
| 222 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux)
| 165 X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.10.1 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu)
| 155 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12)
| 112 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101
| 78 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101
| 54 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101
| 52 User-Agent: Jaro Mail <http://jaromail.dyne.org>
| 38 X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.12.0 (GTK+ 2.24.28; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu)
| 37 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1510)
| 34 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101
| 33 X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.11.1 (GTK+ 2.24.25; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
| 29 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101
| 28 User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/0.9.5
| 28 User-Agent: K-9 Mail for Android
| 22 X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.1 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
| 22 X-Mailer: BlackBerry Email (10.3.2.2639)
| 20 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.8.0 04/21/2012 (debian 1:2.8.0~rc1-2) with nmh-1.5
| 17 X-Mailer: Evolution 3.12.9-1+b1


(Of course people are not forced to include a user-agent or x-mailer at all)