Re: mail messages with only html
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 09:33:37AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> 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.
Sounds a good idea. I'll have to wait till I'm feeling strong before
starting on that though. Procmail scares me.
--
richard
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