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I started using Gnus back when the ding rewrite was released, primarily for news then for email as well to get away from the hellish Lotus Notes client. The unified experience, with scoring and threading was a real boon. At some point I shifted to Outlook because I was getting so much html and office docs filling my email. I am back to using Gnus for consuming the Linux kernel mailing lists as newsgroups where the plaintext aesthetic and the article scoring really helps.

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This is one thing on my list to do. But I am curious about this statement:

>shifted to Outlook because I was getting so much html

Does that mean GNUs does not handle html email ? I ask because with the standard ew package, I would think it would be able to format some html emals.

Right now, I use mutt but under some occasions I need to start firefox to read these emails. Usually from medical companies.

My recollection is a bit vague, but I reckon it was not so much the html as what outlook was doing to the html.

It does handle HTML, but it'll look different from what people reading email in Firefox etc. see. So just like with eww.

(Also, Outlook has MS-specific niceties like replying directly to Teams messages from within an email without having to start up Teams, which I assume they made as a workaround for how long it takes to start up Teams and pick the right organisation and wait for it to tell you to log out (since your account is still connected to that one organisation that long ago invited you for a single meeting and only org admins can remove users) and then hit reload since that sometimes works and then pick the right organisation again and then reply "OK" and then quickly exit Teams before your computer runs out of memory and grinds to a halt.)

There is always the possibility to open and view a HTML Email in the browser by pressing K H.

I transferred all my Sieve rules for marking mail as read to Gnus scoring rules, but haven't made much progress beyond that. I turned on adaptive scoring, but I'm not convinced it is achieving anything. How do you make scoring useful, assuming you do mean more than just the equivalent of Sieve mark-as-read rules?

I mostly use permanent rules to increase the score of reputable contributors to the kernel mailing lists, maintainers, etc. I also use a mixture of permanent and temporary rules to increase the score of things I want to follow or decrease for things I want to ignore. Oh and I lower the score of replies, which has the effect of de-emphasising them unless they’re part of a thread that has an increased score.

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