As someone who understands these things very little, it seems to me that a Gemini plain text (or even gemtext) email client might be very nice indeed. Is this a bad idea? Is it feasible?
I can think of a few drawbacks, but none that would be absolutely prohibitive.
1 year ago 路 馃憤 dizzy
neat idea 路 1 year ago
If I understand you right I bet you can create a Gemini server that acts as an email client on one end and re-serves the mail over Gemini on the other end. Shouldn't be too complicated. 路 1 year ago
I think there鈥檚 a little bit of lack of clarity in my post between the content formatting of emails and then the way the email client itself is displayed. I don鈥檛 really care about the email content - I鈥檓 just imagining an inbox that is a gemtext file with links to view the emails. 路 1 year ago
Even though the email protocol is plain text, rich text email is very common. Moreovor, most people today use web based clients for email. When I want to check my school email, I go to mail.google.com in my web browser.
I鈥檓 just thinking about a Gemini capsule which functions as an email client. The email client could be hosted at mail.satch.xyz, and it would simply fetch emails from the email server and pass gemtext files of the inbox etc to a Gemini server. 路 1 year ago
The email protocol is already basically plain text. You can connect to a mail server using plain old telnet and write an email. I'm not sure exactly what you're looking for. The email client can interpret the plain text any way it likes, so if it's html then it can choose to interpret it that way, but it could also just show html. What is it exactly are you looking for? 路 1 year ago