Mike Meyer: > Paul Rubin: >> I read mail over an ssh connection to a Unix shell. I have no easy >> way to read html email with a graphics browser. > > You don't need a grahics browser - you just need a browser. I read > mail in emacs, and use emacs-w3m to view html in the mailer. Works for > most things, and doesn't have the nasty side effect of letting the > sender know I read it by fetching images from their web site. > >> I occasionally get html email that I want to read. I save it in a >> file and read it with lynx, which so far works perfectly well. I >> find html email to be a PITA and as someone else said, html in email >> is an almost sure sign that it's a message that I want to trash >> without reading it. > > Unfortunately, I've found that HTML email comes in two flavors: That > which sets content-type to text/html in the headers, and that which > sets it to some form of multipart in the headers. I used to bounce all > mail of either form. Then I discovered that the AOL client - used by > my relatives - could *not* be set to not send HTML email. At least it > sends text/plain as well. On investigation, most legit email does > sends multipart/mixed, so I only reject mail whose sole content is > text/html.
Let procmail make all those decisions and transformations for you. I have a maildir called 'raw' where I keep a copy of all non-spammish mail. Copies of the same messages also get delivered in the right mailboxes, by procmail. A message that contains only html, is piped though lynx -dump -stdin. A message containing both HTML and a plain/text-part, is de-mime-d, leaving only the plain/text-part (unless that part contains only a silly remark). Footers and long signatures are limited or even deleted. Etc., etc. (I like my mail cooked.) One of the reasons that I started with Perl, is that I want to rewrite procmail in Perl. -- Affijn, Ruud <http://www.pandora.com/?sc=sh770781&cmd=tunermini> "Gewoon is een tijger." -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
