
Mutt also renders the text instantly unlike Gmail or other web-based options, there’s no waiting for the message to load. It’s the back of the postcard, the meat of the message, and nothing else. The tracking pixels people sneak into emails to see whether I’ve read their message? Nope. Images? I open those separately, and only when I want to. Those ridiculous signatures and disclaimers people put at the bottom of their emails? I don’t see them. That might sound anachronistic, but I believe Mutt is the main reason I still like email. It loads in a text-only window and is controlled with keyboard commands. Mutt is a console-based mail client that was first released in the mid-1990s.
