At 7:33 PM EST on March 21 Gary Johnson sent off: > On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 07:10:40PM -0500, Rob Reid wrote: > > # Despite the name, stripmime.pl is really for deHTMLization. > > macro index "H" "|/home/reid/bin/stripmime.pl >> /var/spool/mail/reid" > > > > i.e. it makes a copy that goes in my inbox, and ends up threaded right > > below the original. If you wanted (I don't) you could add automatic > > deletion of the original. > > > > The only problem is that it goes to my inbox even if the original is in a > > different folder. Is there a trick to fix that? I'm joining the thread > > late, so is that the real problem? In any case it would be useful for mutt > > to be able to write the current folder into an environment variable or > > file. > > You're going to too much work, and I would imagine that the results > don't look very good. To fix HTML e-mail, just put this in your mailcap > file: > > text/html; w3m -dump %s; nametemplate=%s.html; copiousoutput >
I've tried w3m and stripmime does just as well. In fact, I don't want any fancy interpretation of HTML mail by default - it slows things down and can be dangerous if the HTML interpreter executes javascript, etc.. > and this in your muttrc: > > auto_view text/html And then if the message had a good reason to use HTML, I'd have to dig up how to *not* auto_view it, in order to send it to a real browser. That's why I stopped using auto_view for html in the good old days before Microsoft bought hotmail. -- One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor. - Jack Handey Robert I. Reid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://astro.utoronto.ca/~reid/ PGP Key: http://astro.utoronto.ca/~reid/pgp.html
