Re: Opening URLs from mutt (was: Creating HTML emails with mutt)

2019-10-29 Thread Dave Woodfall
On Mon 28 Oct 2019 20:28, Ben Boeckel put forth the proposition: > On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 00:10:09 +, Dave Woodfall wrote: > > Urlview handles long and short links just fine. I've been using it > > for over 10 years. > > One issue I have with it is that context is lost. Marketing emails toda

Re: Opening URLs from mutt (was: Creating HTML emails with mutt)

2019-10-29 Thread martin f krafft
Regarding the following, written by “Dave Woodfall” on 2019-10-29 at 08:53 Uhr +: I deal with very long links, or long lists of links where the context is lost, by opening the message in elinks, and then using elinks’ option to pass a link or current URL to an external application or command

Re: Creating HTML emails with mutt

2019-10-29 Thread martin f krafft
Regarding the following, written by “Kevin J. McCarthy” on 2019-10-29 at 12:58 Uhr +0800: The part creation (and removal) will be in Mutt’s pipeline, and so will follow normal processing that Mutt does. That include encoding, delimiters, charset conversion, etc. So I would like the script to sim

Re: Opening URLs from mutt (was: Creating HTML emails with mutt)

2019-10-29 Thread Mihai Lazarescu
On Tuesday, October 29, 2019 at 13:37:29 +1300, martin f krafft wrote: Regarding the following, written by "Dave Woodfall" on 2019-10-29 at 00:10 Uhr +: >Urlview handles long and short links just fine. I've been >using it for over 10 years. Urlview also obstructs your view to context when

Re: Creating HTML emails with mutt

2019-10-29 Thread Kevin J. McCarthy
On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 10:15:22PM +1300, martin f krafft wrote: Regarding the following, written by "Kevin J. McCarthy" on 2019-10-29 at 12:58 Uhr +0800: instead of the script returning content of a specific type, and thus always with the same content type (unless the filter script is interac

Re: Opening URLs from mutt (was: Creating HTML emails with mutt)

2019-10-29 Thread Mark H. Wood
On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 10:05:10PM +1300, martin f krafft wrote: >Regarding the following, written by "Dave Woodfall" on 2019-10-29 at >08:53 Uhr +: > > I deal with very long links, or long lists of links where the > context is lost, by opening the message in elinks, and then

Re: Creating HTML emails with mutt

2019-10-29 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2019-10-28, Matthias Apitz wrote: > El día lunes, octubre 28, 2019 a las 04:50:40p. m. -0500, Derek Martin > escribió: > >> > FWIW, I (as a mutt user for 15++ years) do not need this. Thanks >> >> Perhaps not, but the fact that it keeps coming up here is pretty clear >> indication that it's a

Re: Creating HTML emails with mutt

2019-10-29 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Grant Edwards [10-29-19 13:10]: > On 2019-10-28, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > El día lunes, octubre 28, 2019 a las 04:50:40p. m. -0500, Derek Martin > > escribió: > > > >> > FWIW, I (as a mutt user for 15++ years) do not need this. Thanks > >> > >> Perhaps not, but the fact that it keeps coming

Re: Creating HTML emails with mutt

2019-10-29 Thread John Long
On Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:50:05 -0400 Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * Grant Edwards [10-29-19 13:10]: > > On 2019-10-28, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > > El día lunes, octubre 28, 2019 a las 04:50:40p. m. -0500, Derek > > > Martin escribió: > > >> > FWIW, I (as a mutt user for 15++ years) do not need th

Re: Creating HTML emails with mutt

2019-10-29 Thread nunojsilva
On 2019-10-29, John Long wrote: > On Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:50:05 -0400 > Patrick Shanahan wrote: > >> * Grant Edwards [10-29-19 13:10]: [...] >> > Muttdown (a "sendmail" filter) which creates mutlipart alternative >> > html/text messages is the only reason I've been able to continue to >> > use mu

Re: Creating HTML emails with mutt

2019-10-29 Thread martin f krafft
Regarding the following, written by “Grant Edwards” on 2019-10-29 at 17:09 Uhr -: Muttdown (a “sendmail” filter) which creates mutlipart alternative html/text messages is the only reason I’ve been able to continue to use mutt for the past 5-6 years. Muttdown suffers from the same problems r

Re: Creating HTML emails with mutt

2019-10-29 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2019-10-29, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * Grant Edwards [10-29-19 13:10]: > >> Muttdown (a "sendmail" filter) which creates mutlipart alternative >> html/text messages is the only reason I've been able to continue to >> use mutt for the past 5-6 years. About 90% of the people to whom I >> send

Re: Creating HTML emails with mutt

2019-10-29 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2019-10-29, (Nuno Silva) wrote: > On 2019-10-29, John Long wrote: > >> On Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:50:05 -0400 >> Patrick Shanahan wrote: >> >>> * Grant Edwards [10-29-19 13:10]: > [...] >>> > Muttdown (a "sendmail" filter) which creates mutlipart alternative >>> > html/text messages is the only

Re: Creating HTML emails with mutt

2019-10-29 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2019-10-29, martin f krafft wrote: > [/home/grante/bin/unmime.py: html rendered using w3m] > Regarding the following, written by “Grant Edwards” on 2019-10-29 at 17:09 Uhr > -: > > Muttdown (a “sendmail” filter) which creates mutlipart alternative html/ > text messages is the only r

Re: Creating HTML emails with mutt

2019-10-29 Thread Martin Trautmann
On 19-10-29 18:09, Grant Edwards wrote: > Muttdown (a "sendmail" filter) which creates mutlipart alternative > html/text messages is the only reason I've been able to continue to > use mutt for the past 5-6 years. About 90% of the people to whom I > send email can't deal with plaintext only. The

Re: Opening URLs from mutt (was: Creating HTML emails with mutt)

2019-10-29 Thread José María Mateos
On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 01:37:29PM +1300, martin f krafft wrote: Yes, it does. I think Chris' and José's points were more about requiring an external tool to provide functionality which has become so core to everyday email use that mutt could learn to do it. Urlview also obstructs your view to

Re: Creating HTML emails with mutt

2019-10-29 Thread martin f krafft
Regarding the following, written by “Martin Trautmann” on 2019-10-30 at 00:14 Uhr +0100: That’s such a strange thing. […] since they never learned, how proper threading and quoting could have worked? 78 characters wide text/plain is just not the lowest common denominator anymore. I am not going

Re: Creating HTML emails with mutt

2019-10-29 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Grant Edwards [10-29-19 18:27]: > On 2019-10-29, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > > * Grant Edwards [10-29-19 13:10]: > > > >> Muttdown (a "sendmail" filter) which creates mutlipart alternative > >> html/text messages is the only reason I've been able to continue to > >> use mutt for the past 5-6 yea