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Re: mail messages with only html



On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 09:10:44AM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 12:24:03AM +0100, Benjamin A'Lee wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 05:46:21PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> > > Hash: SHA1
> > > 
> > > On 09/13/07 17:36, Richard Lyons wrote:
> [...]
> > > > could I in principle write a script to take such void plus html
> > > > messages, strip the tags (replacing URLs when the href text
> > > > doesn't have it) and write the bare text back into the source
> > > > email 
> [...]
> > 
> > There are viewers that can hook into Mutt even if you don't run it under
> > X. 
> > 
> > In .muttrc:
> >     auto_view text/html
> > 
> > In .mailcap:
> >     text/html; w3m -dump -T text/html '%s'; copiousoutput
> > 
> > Or:
> >     text/html; lynx -dump '%s'; copiousoutput # or something like that.
> > 
> > Or use the pipe function to feed it into one of those viewers, for an
> > interactive session.
> 
> Obviously a better method, yes.  But when I reply, I will not get the
> received text quoted ready for editing if the email is void.  The best
> approach might be to take the output of w3m (or links2, elinks, or lynx)
> and write that back instead of the original attachment. 

that's what others were saying about using procmail (or some other
MDA) to pipe the message through a console based html reader and
dumping the output back into the message body.

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