On: I've spent the last two years building a new email...

[darpa_escapee]

My laptop has a limited amount of memory, CPU time and battery life.

[dentemple → darpa_escapee]

So... you make it a point not to read html emails on it?

[jlgaddis → dentemple]

FWIW, I can read HTML e-mails just fine via mutt in an SSH session. One doesn't need Chrome or Firefox to read them.

[sp332 → jlgaddis]

Could you go into a little more detail about this setup?

[pwg → sp332]

Here is an example:

http://stromberg.dnsalias.org/~strombrg/mutt-html.html

[boomlinde → sp332]

Not GP, but there are browsers that can render and dump HTML to plain text, like Lynx. You can of course also run remote X programs, but that seems a bit clunky.