The presentation needs to be improved a bit, but we now have #Fediverse posts in #mutt complete with attachments and other links, with descriptions, as an attached #linkset. This is using #fcli, which is my #Mastodon to #maildir / #SMTP bridge.
The main problem is that the linkset viewer is a bit slow - it probably needs to become a simple C application rather than part of the Python monolith.
I also need to implement support for posting with attachments in the SMTP side of the bridge.
I'm adding support for attachments and other links to my #Mastodon to #maildir bridge. I didn't want to use standard #MIME attachments, as that would require me to download every attachment from all of the posts in my feed, so instead I've decided to create a #linkset object as defined in https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9264.html.
I've written a small utility to load these files and present a menu of links which can be opened in the relevant application, which works pretty well from a mailcap entry. Right now the main problem is that there's no sensible way to surface the alt text, which helps me decide whether I want to open the attachment. I haven't really checked whether there's anything relevant in the RFC, so there may be an obvious way of doing this.
