Paul Rubin <http://[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I read mail over an ssh connection to a Unix shell. I have no easy > way to read html email with a graphics browser.
You don't need a grahics browser - you just need a browser. I read mail in emacs, and use emacs-w3m to view html in the mailer. Works for most things, and doesn't have the nasty side effect of letting the sender know I read it by fetching images from their web site. > I occasionally get html email that I want to read. I save it in a > file and read it with lynx, which so far works perfectly well. I > find html email to be a PITA and as someone else said, html in email > is an almost sure sign that it's a message that I want to trash > without reading it. Unfortunately, I've found that HTML email comes in two flavors: That which sets content-type to text/html in the headers, and that which sets it to some form of multipart in the headers. I used to bounce all mail of either form. Then I discovered that the AOL client - used by my relatives - could *not* be set to not send HTML email. At least it sends text/plain as well. On investigation, most legit email does sends multipart/mixed, so I only reject mail whose sole content is text/html. <mike -- Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list