* Bertrand Janin on Friday, February 27, 2009 at 09:56:59 -0500 > I work in a company using mainly HTML emails. They format their mails > and from time to time insert screenshots and images to illustrate their > point. While I obviously disagree with the process, I am not in position > to change that right now. > > The text version generated by their thunderbirds is good 95% of the time > and mutt serves me well. But I still receive this email from time to > time with screenshots and formatting in a specific order. It is rare but > I hate to juggle between firefox, mutt and an image viewer. > > I tried to search quickly for solutions to 'export' the mail with its > image attachment so it can be viewed as-is in firefox, with the images > at the right place. I tried to fiddle with 'metamail' but without > success, 'uudecode' doesn't find anything... > > I can probably write a script to handle this kind of situation, but > before I code a square wheel I'd like to know if someone out there ever > accomplished this.
Shamelessly plugging my muttils package (needs Python >= 2.4): http://www.blacktrash.org/hg/muttils/ You can use its viewhtmlmsg command in a macro: macro index,pager <F7> "\ <enter-command> set my_wait_key=\$wait_key wait_key=no<enter>\ <pipe-message>viewhtmlmsg<enter>\ <enter-command> set wait_key=\$my_wait_key &my_wait_key<enter>\ " "view HTML in browser" macro index,pager <F8> "\ <enter-command> set my_wait_key=\$wait_key wait_key=no<enter>\ <pipe-message>viewhtmlmsg -s<enter>\ <enter-command> set wait_key=\$my_wait_key &my_wait_key<enter>\ " "view HTML (safe) in browser" c -- \black\trash movie _C O W B O Y_ _C A N O E_ _C O M A_ Ein deutscher Western/A German Western -->> http://www.blacktrash.org/underdogma/ccc.html -->> http://www.blacktrash.org/underdogma/ccc-en.html
