Re: Mutt and html

[David Jardine <david@jardine.de>]

On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 05:23:15PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 01:04:58AM +0200, David Jardine wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 11:09:31PM +0200, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 16:36 -0400, David R. Litwin wrote:
> > > > Any way, have you any advice
> > > 
> > > not using HTML...
> > 
> > Using mutt, I see no html.  Is this a bug or a feature of mutt?  
> > (I do often get html attachments - and also quite a lot of html 
> > source code from spammers.)
> > 
> 
> I consider it a feature. You can, with maybe some configuratio, get
> mutt to invoke your favorite html browser and have it display the
> html when you press the v-key.

Heaven forbid.  The occasional post to this list does appear as an 
html attachment and I usually just delete it without reading it 
because of the awkwardness of reading it and more particularly of 
deleting it.  

What I'm curious about is 

	(a) the difference in the way mutt deals with html emails 
	(sometimes outputting them as normal text, sometimes presenting 
	them as attachments), 

	(b) the difference in the way different MUAs (I hope that's the 
	right term) present html emails such as the one someone was 
	complaining about above (inline or attachment), and 

	(c) the difference in the way different MUAs (?) send these html 
	emails.  It seems as if there's some way of indicating that the 
	text should be inlined but that some senders don't use it and 
	that some receivers don't understand it.  Okay, that's my non-
	techie way of seeing it.

Any ideas?

-- 
David Jardine

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