Tim Starling wrote:
We still haven't heard from Faidon who, last I heard, still reads his emails by piping telnet into less or something. But I think he can make sense of multipart/alternative as long as it's not base-64 encoded...
I'm not Faidon, and I'm not even a regular contributor to this list, but as a data point of almost vanishingly possible interest, I can say that the above isn't even much of an exaggeration for the suitably old-guard set. Me, I read mail using a shell script 'mshow', which boils down to a selective cat from $MAIL into more, and gratuitous base-64 encoding is indeed an issue, causing me to pretty regularly have to type
mshow | mailbody | b64 -d | more
I have really got to automate that some day.