* Chip Camden on Saturday, September 04, 2010 at 15:22:57 -0700 > Quoth Christian Ebert on Saturday, 04 September 2010: >> * Charles Jie on Saturday, September 04, 2010 at 18:40:43 +0800 >>> I've been using mutt for 7 years. From time to time, such idea may flash >>> in my brain. >>> >>> I can read most of my daily mail with mutt without problem. >>> >>> But sometimes some friends may send me an html mail with pretty rich >>> inline images. Such embedded images need to be seen in right >>> context (there are related text arround them). >>> >>> My current practice is bouncing the mail to another user in my linux >>> box, and launch Thunderbird to get and read it. >>> >>> I'm wondering if it is possible for my mutt to copy the message to a >>> temporary mbox file, and launch a GUI mail viewer to view it. (the way a >>> little like what we do about attachment) >>> >>> I've checked Thunderbird's command line usage. It accepts a URL >>> (thunderbird -mail URL) but it doesn't treat it as mbox (but raw >>> text). >>> >>> Any idea or experience? >> >> Shameless plug: >> >> If you're not afraid of Python, you could try viewhtmlmsg of my >> muttils bundle. It seems to do what you want. >> >> $ viewhtmlmsg -h >> Usage: viewhtmlmsg [options] >> >> Displays html message read from stdin. $BROWSER environment may be >> overridden >> with option "-b". >> >> Options: >> --version show program's version number and exit >> -h, --help show this help message and exit >> -s, --safe view html w/o loading remote files >> -k KEEP, --keep=KEEP remove temporary files after KEEP seconds (0 for >> keeping files) >> -b APP, --browser=APP >> prefer browser APP over $BROWSER environment >> >> But it is mainly meant to be used from within Mutt via a macro: >> >> # call viewhtmlmsg from macro >> macro index,pager <F7> "\ >> <enter-command> set my_wait_key=\$wait_key wait_key=no<enter>\ >> <pipe-message>viewhtmlmsg<enter>\ >> <enter-command> set wait_key=\$my_wait_key &my_wait_key<enter>\ >> " "view HTML in browser" >> >> macro index,pager <F8> "\ >> <enter-command> set my_wait_key=\$wait_key wait_key=no<enter>\ >> <pipe-message>viewhtmlmsg -s<enter>\ >> <enter-command> set wait_key=\$my_wait_key &my_wait_key<enter>\ >> " "view HTML (safe) in browser" > > That's pretty cool. It looks though like it doesn't accept a shell > wrapper for the browser: > > viewhtmlmsg -b browser > > where browser is a shell script as follows: > > #!/bin/sh > if RunningX > then > firefox $* > xdotool key super+3 > xdotool keyup super > else > w3m -t text/html $* > fi > > It appears from debugging that we never even get into this script, yet no > error is generated. Same result if I put the full path on the script. > > Works great with just 'viewhtmlmsg -b firefox' though, and the odd thing > is that 'firefox' is a shell script in /usr/local/bin.
That's because the script uses Python's webbrowser module http://docs.python.org/library/webbrowser.html for browser detection and handling. I deemed it sufficient for most use cases. c -- theatre - books - texts - movies Black Trash Productions at home: http://www.blacktrash.org/ Black Trash Productions on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/blacktrashproductions
