[Tutor] OT: Preferred email client for sending plain text programming code snippets

[Mark Lawrence]

On 17/02/2015 23:23, boB Stepp wrote:
> Hopefully this is not a touchy subject like Emacs vs. Vim. ~(:>))
>
> My home PC uses Win7-64bit. I currently use Chrome, Gmail and have a
> Nexus 5 phone. The nice thing about all of this is that all of my
> information usually seamlessly syncs. That is nice! But I am getting
> increasingly frustrated with Gmail in terms of communicating with this
> group (and sometimes others). It seems that if I am not constantly
> attentive, my settings change from plain text to html, or, now, my New
> Courier fixed-width font vanishes from the Gmail ecosystem and cannot
> be found. I actually have come to prefer plain text communication as I
> only rarely need html formatting. And I rarely care to see most of the
> crap people send me that require html!
>
> So are there any recommendations from this group that would make
> things easy, would still be able to receive/send from my Gmail
> account, etc.?
>

Thunderbird.  Access to 300+ Python mailing lists, blogs and the rest 
all in one place via gmane.  Personally I've never had a single problem 
with it.

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Mark Lawrence