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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
