On Wed, Nov 12, 2025 at 12:22:43PM +0100, Rene Kita wrote: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2025 at 02:39:44AM -0800, Chris Bennett wrote: > > I have been using Lynx fairly successfully with html attachments when > > using ssh to run neomutt over on my server. > > I am starting to get more html that only shows pages of css code but > > never any usable message. Naturally, these happen to be important > > messages. > > Is there any fix for this problem? A different mailcap configuration or > > a better text browser to use? Or is this just a problem without a > > solution? > > Did you try with other browsers, w3m or Firefox? Without seeing the > actual mail content it will be hard to find the cause for this.
I am trying to avoid the PITA of moving a copy of the HTML attachment to one of my websites in order to then access it there. Using a text browser "on the server" is also the safest way to avoid the all too common threats present in JS or other creative attacks. I have one system in my home/office that runs Firefox fine. The other two, one cannot manage to run the bloated browser. The other one, just barely. They both run ssh without any problems. Most likely, these are just HTML pages that cannot run without JS. I am basically asking if there is a text browser or a different setting for lynx that can let me skip seeing mountains of CSS and quickly see that there is nothing to see. Perhaps a filter to remove the css and then pass it to a text browser? I'm under a very short deadline right now, so I'm guzzling coffee and sleeping when I sit down. When I have a problem with Internet access at home, I lug one of those old systems downstairs to the library room that has a WiFi access point or I just plug in an ethernet cable down there. I don't trust our lovely Android or Windows systems to ever have access to anything sensitive. I hate gigantic html emails that only have a three sentence message. -- Regards, Chris Bennett
