Re: Displaying HTML mail contents

2022-05-13 Thread Marc Baaden
Dear All, Very interesting discussion. I totally share the issue and much of the analysis (eg automated mails from sites such as amazon etc. are difficult to process with exmh). My workaround is simple, and for me totally sufficient. I am using a Mac OS system. Mac OS has a quite reasonable

Re: Displaying HTML mail contents

2022-05-13 Thread Ken Hornstein
>But that is as far as I go. The exmh interpreter is good enough >that I can tell if I really need to read the message or not. >If not, I simply don't. If I think I should read it, I send a >reply, informing the sender that I cannot read their message. >If the sender also believes I need to read

Re: Displaying HTML mail contents

2022-05-12 Thread Robert Elz
Date:Wed, 11 May 2022 21:22:08 -0400 From:Ken Hornstein Message-ID: <20220512012210.97cc5112...@pb-smtp2.pobox.com> | - I set the multipart alterative preference to text/plain first. | - For those messages (or ones that contain only text/html) I fall | back t

Re: Displaying HTML mail contents

2022-05-11 Thread Ken Hornstein
> I was wondering how do you manage to view HTML contents since > nowadays most of our e-mails are written like this. My lame, busted-ass answer: - I set the multipart alterative preference to text/plain first. This helps a fair amount. Not all messages have useful text/plains eve

Re: Displaying HTML mail contents

2022-05-11 Thread Chris Siebenmann
> I was wondering how do you manage to view HTML contents since > nowadays most of our e-mails are written like this. > > Works well for me using '/opt/bin/netscape' as you can see from > the screenshot enclosed. This netscape file is a symbolic link > to /usr/bin/fire