On Mon, 23 Aug 2010, Suraj Kurapati wrote: > On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 8:46 PM, Anthony J. Bentley wrote: > >> Is there currently a tool or script that I can use to strip html > >> from emails? > > > > mhshow-show-text/html: lynx -dump %F | less > > > > Lynx sucks but it sorta works well enough here, I guess. > > I find that w3m does a much better job of HTML to plain-text > conversion than Lynx. It even renders HTML tables using Unicode > box-drawing characters! > > http://w3m.sourceforge.net/ >
Wow. Thanks for that. I've always preferred 'links' to 'lynx', but 'w3m' just dethroned it. For the crappy HTML emails I deal with at work that assume everyone uses HTML-based email, I had to add an explicit type: w3m -dump -T text/html -- Best, Ben
