On 16:46 11 May 2002, Philip Mak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| On Sat, May 11, 2002 at 07:30:20PM +0200, Marco Fioretti wrote:
| > On Sat, May 11, 2002 16:25:27 at 04:25:27PM +0200, Rocco Rutte wrote:
| > > Basically, yes. But note: emails do also contain a header
| > > which, in html mails, is before the initial <html> statement.
| > > So, browsers will have problems with that.
| > Yes, me too, I've already seen this problem: is there any known way to
| > make them act only on the message body?
| Write a perl script to preprocess the message, maybe. It could remove
| the headers or convert them into HTML (by escaping < > & characters
| and adding <br> before \n).
Funny you should suggest this. Did that yesterday. Here:
http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/scripts/squashblanks
Now, this is actually intended as a filter for the builtin pager.
My setup is as follows:
In my muttrc:
set display_filter="squashblanks -P par -s"
set implicit_autoview=yes
and in my mailcap file:
text/html; w3m -dump -T text/html %s; copiousoutput
The net effect here is:
- use mutt's pager
- pass HTML content through w3m for conversion to plain text
automatically using the mailcap to specify w3m, and using the
implicit_autoview setting to tell mutt to convert on the fly
and present it in the pager
- finally, the display_filter setting causes mutt to pass the converted
text (post w3m, pre the pager) through the command
squashblanks -P par -s
which tidies things up somewhat.
Now, squashblanks pipes its results through par to reformat stuff.
However, the -P options does so _after_ reading and passing the headers
_untouched_. (And the -s does the untouched thing for signatures).
The net suggestion here is to:
- use mutt's implicit_autoview facility to call w3m for you
- if you _do_ want more processing, use squashblanks to filter stuff
between the headers and the sig, or just take it's code and recut to
suit yourself
BTW, for those using par to filter their pager, add ESC (_x1b) to the
PARPROTECT character list - that way mutt's coloured PGP and attachment
marker lines don't get magled.
--
Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/
Churchill's Commentary on Man: Man will occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
