On Mon, 9 Feb 2026, Eduardo Chappa via Alpine-info wrote:
On Mon, 9 Feb 2026, Hisashi T Fujinaka wrote:
I used to use demime or something. Nowadays there's so much html
nonsense
With that, I can read any html message I want, which for me is the
exception, not the rule.
I share your discomfort with html mail, specially for the case where
a message contains two copies, a plain text one and an html "duplicate",
and secondarlly for those newsletters which send a single html part
without linefeeds.
So I have a set of procmail rules
- one default rule using an external shell script will strip the the html
part so that in my inbox I see only the plain text (and I archive only
such version). The script also strips top posting stuff.
For safety the original untouched message is saved to a temporary
folder (cycles weekly), so I can get at it if something goes wrong
- a few rules BEFORE that will avoid such processing for a few addresses
which send legitimate html mail (usually newsletters with graphics,
eoither as a single well formatted html part, or a linefeed-less obe
When I receive an HTML message that I am interested in reading, I pass it
to a web browser for display.
In order to do that (usually for the newsletters above, I normally do as
follows.
- in the message do V (for view attachments)
- then S to save the html as a file in s specific directory
(usually temp/AAAB/temp.html, with Overwrite)
- then in my browser I go to such directory and view it
(note that in my case the machine where I sit, my home PC, is not the
machine where mail arrives (a work PC). I usually run alpine in an ssh
terminal from home to work. So temp/AAAB is on the work machine (which
has an apache server), while the browser is on the home machine.
But it could work even if all would be on a single PC, and even if it has
no apache server (I actually I have one at home though local), using
file"// insetad of hhtp:// on the browser.
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