I wonder, can mutt be used to strip all images and toss them in the
trash and strip all image attachments and toss them in the trash then
make remaining text viewable in mutt? Some of us with this kind of
capability could save lots of disk space.
On Tue, 10 Apr 2018, Akkana Peck wrote:
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 12:46:08
From: Akkana Peck <akk...@shallowsky.com>
To: mutt-users@mutt.org
Subject: Re: choices on reading HTML emails
On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 03:57:53PM +0800, Yubin Ruan wrote:
Can anyone share some approaches for reading HTML emails.
Currenlty I use w3m:
text/html; w3m -I %{charset} -T text/html; copiousoutput;
But sometimes I receive some HTML mails which can not be handled that well by
w3m, so I want to open that html attachment in a browser. How can I switch
between?
Chris Green writes:
I have similar, my .mailcap is:-
text/html; /home/chris/bin/muttfox %s
text/html; lynx -dump %s; copiousoutput; nametemplate=%s.html
So I use lynx to view HTML E-Mail by default and to view in my browser
I hit v[iew-attachment] and then 'm' for view-mailcap to view using my
muttfox script. The muttfox script just calls a local or remote
firefox it's only necessary because I run mutt via ssh remotely
someetimes. For normal use you can just call firefox directly.
I have several ways of dealing with different types of HTML,
though it starts with a mailcap like Chris':
text/html; mimehelper 5 firefox 'file://%s'; nametemplate=%s.html
text/html; lynx -term=xterm -dump %s; nametemplate=%s.html; copiousoutput
Mutt will automatically show html messages using lynx, but if I want
to see them in firefox, I use 'v' to see the attachment list, arrow
down to the attachment and hit return. mimehelper is a script that
runs a program then sleeps for 5 seconds, otherwise mutt often
removes the temp file before the browser has had a chance to read it.
I wish I could make mutt less aggressive about removing its temp files.
Then there's the case of multipart/alternative messages where the
text part (which I prefer in alternative_order) is broken; I don't
necessarily want to open the HTML message in a browser, I just want
to reverse alternative_order so I can see the HTML part it lynx.
I have a binding for that which I got from
http://www.archivum.info/comp.mail.mutt/2008-08/00002/Re-combined-html-ascii-message-mutt-shows-html-but-not-ascii.html
That still leaves the edge case of HTML mail with attached images.
I don't get those very often, but when I do, mutt can't show the
images. So I wrote a Python script that pulls out the cid:
attachments and saves them, then rewrites the HTML to point to them.
http://shallowsky.com/blog/tech/email/mutt-viewing-html-mail.html
Finally, I have a script that brings up a browser window showing all
the attachments, both HTML and Word docs (converted to HTML), in
different tabs. (I unfortunately have to correspond with a group of
people who insist on communicating by mailing bunches of Word
attachments). So I put that on F5:
macro index <F5> "<pipe-message>~/bin/viewmailattachments\n" "View all attachments
in browser"
macro pager <F5> "<pipe-message>~/bin/viewmailattachments\n" "View all attachments
in browser"
The script is at
https://github.com/akkana/scripts/blob/master/viewmailattachments
That one doesn't handle embedded images; some day I need to combine
viewmailattachments and viewhtmlmail into one script.
...Akkana
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