On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 11:27:45PM +0000, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 11:59:55AM -0600, David Young wrote: > > Every now and then some jerk sends me an email reply where their > > contribution is red. Maybe that is worth fighting about on grounds > > that that's a poor choice of color for readability, but not on grounds > > that my console is monochrome. > > If someone sends me html mail (to a different account), I trash > mail in silly colours. On a technical list, I expect plain text and > conformity with accepted norms.
Eh, I pipe it through lynx, which removes most of the frills and makes
it almost readable again.
mwood@mhw ~/.mutt $ grep html ~/.mutt/muttrc
auto_view text/html
alternative_order text/plain text/html application/postscript text
mwood@mhw ~ $ grep html /etc/mailcap
text/html; /usr/bin/lynx -dump -force_html '%s'; \
copiousoutput; \
description=HTML Text; \
nametemplate=%s.html
mwood@mhw ~ $
(Hand-rewrapped to fit my 80-column xterm.)
You should see the double-takes at a store when I present one of those
"your order has arrived, bring a copy of this" messages (usually
dripping with unnecessary decoration and clutter) which I've printed
out of mutt. :-)
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Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mw...@iupui.edu
I don't do "doorbusters".
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