Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments (with ??urubelni????)

2020-03-27 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Fri 27 Mar 2020 at 17:35:19 (+0300), Reco wrote: I think we can agree that the Romans spoke Latin! Actually, Latin was the official, legal language of Rome. The previous conquests of Alexander the Great established the Koine dialect of Greek as the "lingua franca" of the Ancient World. Koin

Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments (with șurubelniță)

2020-03-27 Thread Brian
On Fri 27 Mar 2020 at 12:42:17 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 11:12:49AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 27 Mar 2020 at 17:35:19 (+0300), Reco wrote: > > > I'm not that familiar with the languages to qualify Romanian as a Latin > > > or a non-Latin language, > > > > I

Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments (with șurubelniță)

2020-03-27 Thread Curt
On 2020-03-27, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 11:12:49AM -0500, David Wright wrote: >> On Fri 27 Mar 2020 at 17:35:19 (+0300), Reco wrote: >> > I'm not that familiar with the languages to qualify Romanian as a Latin >> > or a non-Latin language, >> >> I think we can agree that the

Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments (with șurubelniță)

2020-03-27 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 27 mar 20, 12:42:17, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 11:12:49AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 27 Mar 2020 at 17:35:19 (+0300), Reco wrote: > > > I'm not that familiar with the languages to qualify Romanian as a Latin > > > or a non-Latin language, > > > > I think we c

Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments (with șurubelniță)

2020-03-27 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 11:12:49AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Fri 27 Mar 2020 at 17:35:19 (+0300), Reco wrote: > > I'm not that familiar with the languages to qualify Romanian as a Latin > > or a non-Latin language, > > I think we can agree that the Romans spoke Latin! Err... Romanian is not

Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments (with șurubelniță)

2020-03-27 Thread David Wright
On Fri 27 Mar 2020 at 17:35:19 (+0300), Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 02:22:18PM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > or an attachment was named using non-Latin characters. > > > > Is that non-Latin or non-ASCII? > > I'm not that familiar with the languages to qualify Romania

Re: [solved] Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments

2020-03-27 Thread David Wright
On Fri 27 Mar 2020 at 06:31:29 (+), Russell L. Harris wrote: > On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 03:03:55AM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > Rather than hassle with mutt, I hoped to install an auxiliary mail > > client with GUI (such as Thunderbird) with which I could open such > ... > > One approach

Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments

2020-03-27 Thread David Wright
On Sat 28 Mar 2020 at 02:48:04 (+1300), Richard Hector wrote: > On 28/03/20 1:22 am, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > (attaching a zero length file with the name using some special Romanian > > characters to this mail) > > Interesting. It appears Thunderbird won't let me save that. Presumably > because

Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments

2020-03-27 Thread Reco
Hi. On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 02:22:18PM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > or an attachment was named using non-Latin characters. > > Is that non-Latin or non-ASCII? I'm not that familiar with the languages to qualify Romanian as a Latin or a non-Latin language, but your attachment really i

Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments

2020-03-27 Thread Richard Hector
On 28/03/20 1:22 am, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > (attaching a zero length file with the name using some special Romanian > characters to this mail) Interesting. It appears Thunderbird won't let me save that. Presumably because it's empty. Also the list archive seems to have thrown it away. But that

Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments

2020-03-27 Thread Dan Purgert
On Mar 27, 2020, Dan Purgert wrote: > On Mar 27, 2020, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Jo, 26 mar 20, 18:41:10, Reco wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 08:53:35AM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > > > > > > > I understand. But some of the stuff I receive does not work as > > > > expected. What

Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments

2020-03-27 Thread Dan Purgert
On Mar 27, 2020, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 26 mar 20, 18:41:10, Reco wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 08:53:35AM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > > > > > I understand. But some of the stuff I receive does not work as > > > expected. What do I do with the following PDF: > > > > > >

Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments

2020-03-27 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 27 mar 20, 14:40:21, Reco wrote: > On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 10:51:46AM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > Nice one, added. Wondering why it's not the default though... > > A small correction. It's "set rfc2047_parameters=true". set rfc2047_parameters is already sufficient (because i

Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments

2020-03-27 Thread Reco
Hi. On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 10:51:46AM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 26 mar 20, 18:41:10, Reco wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 08:53:35AM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > > > > > I understand. But some of the stuff I receive does not work as > > > expected. What do I do wi

Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments

2020-03-27 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 26 mar 20, 18:41:10, Reco wrote: > On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 08:53:35AM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > > > I understand. But some of the stuff I receive does not work as > > expected. What do I do with the following PDF: > > > >=?utf-8?B?QkhfODU0MDk2MjMwLnBkZg==?= > > Read muttrc

[solved] Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments

2020-03-26 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 03:03:55AM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: Rather than hassle with mutt, I hoped to install an auxiliary mail client with GUI (such as Thunderbird) with which I could open such ... One approach would be to get a mail account strictly for this purpose, and set up a comple

Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments

2020-03-26 Thread David Wright
On Thu 26 Mar 2020 at 18:29:38 (+), Russell L. Harris wrote: > On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 11:20:15AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > (I presume that you know about "v", to list attachments, and that > > attachments can be email-type entities on which you can use "v" > > again. List digests are lik

Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments

2020-03-26 Thread Nate Bargmann
to use Evolution since it was included "for free". Any mailer that can display HTML + Javascript inline would work, I suppose. In ancient times I used Pegasus on Windows 3.1. When I switched to Linux full time in early '98 I used Netscape Mail. I found it cumbersome with a mult

Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments

2020-03-26 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 11:20:15AM -0500, David Wright wrote: On Thu 26 Mar 2020 at 03:03:55 (+), Russell L. Harris wrote: At the moment I am running neo-mutt on Debian 9. Once or twice a day I receive a HTML message, typically with a PDF file as an attachment. Picking out and viewing the

Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments

2020-03-26 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 06:47:55AM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: As I have my own domain, it was trivial to create a mailbox on the mail host and use Mutt/Neomutt's bounce command (b) to 'bounce' the mail in question to that mailbox and then retrieve it with Evolution. It's an extra step but means

Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments

2020-03-26 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 10:44:14AM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: =?utf-8?B?QkhfODU0MDk2MjMwLnBkZg==?= This is not a PDF (it would be a very short one, mind you :) I misspoke; I should have said "string" rather than "PDF". But I did not discover how to get mutt to point me to the PDF file

Re: Over-engineering, Libre Software and Open Source (was: HTML mail + PDF attachments)

2020-03-26 Thread tomas
On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 04:39:10PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > to...@tuxteam.de (12020-03-26): > > [3] I don't think it's really intentional. It's an unfortunate and > >contagious antipattern, a bit like prions transmit Creutzfeld-Jacob. > >But nowadays I suspect that some actors help it

Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments

2020-03-26 Thread David Wright
On Thu 26 Mar 2020 at 03:03:55 (+), Russell L. Harris wrote: > At the moment I am running neo-mutt on Debian 9. Once or twice a day > I receive a HTML message, typically with a PDF file as an attachment. > Picking out and viewing the links and attachments always is a hassle, > a

Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments

2020-03-26 Thread Reco
Hi. On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 09:26:30AM -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > On 26/03/2020 00:03, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > At the moment I am running neo-mutt on Debian 9.  Once or twice a day > > I receive a HTML message, typically with a PDF file as an attachment. >

Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments

2020-03-26 Thread Reco
hould be opened in your default pdf > > viewer. This should work also for 'html' parts to be opened in your > > default browser. > > I understand. But some of the stuff I receive does not work as > expected. What do I do with the following PDF: > >=?utf-8?

Over-engineering, Libre Software and Open Source (was: HTML mail + PDF attachments)

2020-03-26 Thread Nicolas George
to...@tuxteam.de (12020-03-26): > [3] I don't think it's really intentional. It's an unfortunate and >contagious antipattern, a bit like prions transmit Creutzfeld-Jacob. >But nowadays I suspect that some actors help its expansion because >it helps their business interests. Or something

Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments

2020-03-26 Thread Erwan David
On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 12:47:55PM CET, Nate Bargmann said: > As I have my own domain, it was trivial to create a mailbox on the mail > host and use Mutt/Neomutt's bounce command (b) to 'bounce' the mail in > question to that mailbox and then retrieve it with Evolution. It's an > extra step but m

Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments

2020-03-26 Thread Dan Purgert
On Mar 26, 2020, Tixy wrote: > On Thu, 2020-03-26 at 07:38 -0400, Dan Purgert wrote: > > As you said, the correct approach would be utilizing IMAP -- however, > > whether or not there is IMAP access is entirely dependent on the > > server's configuration. Offhand I don't know of any that _only_ >

Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments

2020-03-26 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On 26/03/2020 00:03, Russell L. Harris wrote: > At the moment I am running neo-mutt on Debian 9.  Once or twice a day > I receive a HTML message, typically with a PDF file as an attachment. > Picking out and viewing the links and attachments always is a hassle, > and sometimes is rath

Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments

2020-03-26 Thread Tixy
On Thu, 2020-03-26 at 07:38 -0400, Dan Purgert wrote: > As you said, the correct approach would be utilizing IMAP -- however, > whether or not there is IMAP access is entirely dependent on the > server's configuration. Offhand I don't know of any that _only_ > support > POP3 these days; but there'

Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments

2020-03-26 Thread Nate Bargmann
As I have my own domain, it was trivial to create a mailbox on the mail host and use Mutt/Neomutt's bounce command (b) to 'bounce' the mail in question to that mailbox and then retrieve it with Evolution. It's an extra step but means that I don't have to abandon Neomutt for an inferior mail progra

Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments

2020-03-26 Thread Dan Purgert
attachment. It should be opened in your default pdf > > > viewer. This should work also for 'html' parts to be opened in your > > > default browser. > > > > I understand. But some of the stuff I receive does not work as > > expected. What do I d

Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments

2020-03-26 Thread Dan Purgert
t; > viewer. This should work also for 'html' parts to be opened in your > > default browser. > > I understand. But some of the stuff I receive does not work as > expected. What do I do with the following PDF: > >=?utf-8?B?QkhfODU0MDk2MjMwLnBkZg==?= delete it

Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments

2020-03-26 Thread Dan Purgert
On Mar 26, 2020, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > [...] > URLs: install urlview and press Ctrl-b to select the url you want (will > be passed to your default browser) Nice to know! Something new for the toolbox! -- |_|O|_| |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O| PGP: 05CA 9A50 3F2E 1335 4

Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments

2020-03-26 Thread Dan Purgert
On Mar 25, 2020, David Christensen wrote: > On 2020-03-25 20:03, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > At the moment I am running neo-mutt on Debian 9.  Once or twice a day > > I receive a HTML message, typically with a PDF file as an attachment. > > Picking out and viewing the links a

Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments

2020-03-26 Thread tomas
in your default pdf > >viewer. This should work also for 'html' parts to be opened in your > >default browser. > > I understand. But some of the stuff I receive does not work as > expected. What do I do with the following PDF: > >=?utf-8?B?QkhfODU0MDk2M

Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments

2020-03-26 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 10:24:38AM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: Opening pdfs in a reader is trivial with mutt. Just press 'v' and then 'Return' on the pdf attachment. It should be opened in your default pdf viewer. This should work also for 'html' parts to be opene

Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments

2020-03-26 Thread Joe
On Wed, 25 Mar 2020 21:51:51 -0700 David Christensen wrote: > On 2020-03-25 20:03, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > At the moment I am running neo-mutt on Debian 9.  Once or twice a > > day I receive a HTML message, typically with a PDF file as an > > attachment. Picking out

Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments

2020-03-26 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 26 mar 20, 03:03:55, Russell L. Harris wrote: > At the moment I am running neo-mutt on Debian 9. Once or twice a day > I receive a HTML message, typically with a PDF file as an attachment. > Picking out and viewing the links and attachments always is a hassle, > and sometim

Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments

2020-03-25 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 09:51:51PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: If you configure all your e-mail clients to leave the messages on the server, you should be able to access the same e-mail server account from multiple clients. Current clients using IMAP seem to work this way (Thunderbird, App

Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments

2020-03-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 25 March 2020 23:03:55 Russell L. Harris wrote: > At the moment I am running neo-mutt on Debian 9. Once or twice a day > I receive a HTML message, typically with a PDF file as an attachment. > Picking out and viewing the links and attachments always is a hassle, > and

Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments

2020-03-25 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-03-25 20:03, Russell L. Harris wrote: At the moment I am running neo-mutt on Debian 9.  Once or twice a day I receive a HTML message, typically with a PDF file as an attachment. Picking out and viewing the links and attachments always is a hassle, and sometimes is rather difficult

HTML mail + PDF attachments

2020-03-25 Thread Russell L. Harris
At the moment I am running neo-mutt on Debian 9. Once or twice a day I receive a HTML message, typically with a PDF file as an attachment. Picking out and viewing the links and attachments always is a hassle, and sometimes is rather difficult. Rather than hassle with mutt, I hoped to install an

Re: Viewer for html files

2020-02-12 Thread Ralph Katz
On 2/11/20 10:26 AM, Thomas George wrote: > Obviously I can view html files with any of the browsers. It is not > always convenient. If I save an interesting web page by right clicking > on save as the result is a often a very long file name containing > spaces. I save these html file

Re: Viewer for html files

2020-02-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 11 feb 20, 12:26:38, Thomas George wrote: > > It would be nice to have an html viewer which opens a file in the current > directory with auto-completion of the initial word of the filename. It's not clear where that "current directory" is, a shell, file manager, e

Re: Viewer for html files

2020-02-11 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 12:26:38PM -0500, Thomas George wrote: > > file:///home/user/directory/long file name.html > > It would be nice to have an html viewer which opens a file in the current > directory with auto-completion of the initial word of the filename. > > Is the

Re: Viewer for html files

2020-02-11 Thread john doe
On 2/11/2020 6:26 PM, Thomas George wrote: > Obviously I can view html files with any of the browsers. It is not > always convenient. If I save an interesting web page by right clicking > on save as the result is a often a very long file name containing > spaces. I save these html file

Viewer for html files

2020-02-11 Thread Thomas George
Obviously I can view html files with any of the browsers. It is not always convenient. If I save an interesting web page by right clicking on save as the result is a often a very long file name containing spaces. I save these html files in various directories according to subject. if I

Re: auxiliary mail client for HTML

2019-11-13 Thread Wim
On Tuesday, 12 November at 15:40, Dejan Jocic wrote: > > >> I thought everybody just used a mailcap file and was fine. > > > > > > I do and have it setup to use w3m to deal with most HTML mail. Some > > > does look better in a GUI program and that's wh

Re: auxiliary mail client for HTML

2019-11-12 Thread David Wright
On Tue 12 Nov 2019 at 09:23:54 (-), Curt wrote: > On 2019-11-08, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > > >> I thought everybody just used a mailcap file and was fine. > > > > I do and have it setup to use w3m to deal with most HTML mail. Some > > does look better in a

Re: auxiliary mail client for HTML

2019-11-12 Thread Dejan Jocic
On 12-11-19, Curt wrote: > On 2019-11-08, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > > >> I thought everybody just used a mailcap file and was fine. > > > > I do and have it setup to use w3m to deal with most HTML mail. Some > > does look better in a GUI program and that&

Re: auxiliary mail client for HTML

2019-11-12 Thread Curt
On 2019-11-08, Nate Bargmann wrote: > >> I thought everybody just used a mailcap file and was fine. > > I do and have it setup to use w3m to deal with most HTML mail. Some > does look better in a GUI program and that's why I do this. > Well, then text/html; /usr/b

Re: auxiliary mail client for HTML

2019-11-08 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2019 07 Nov 10:27 -0600, Curt wrote: > On 2019-11-07, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > > > > > What I did was set up an account at my domain that I can "bounce" mail > > from Neomutt and then fetch it via Evolution that is configured only for > > t

Re: auxiliary mail client for HTML

2019-11-08 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2019 07 Nov 19:12 -0600, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > Ok, thanks -- so, iiuc, you have more than one email account, and you use one > of those accounts to forward mail to the other machine. Right, though it's just to another program on the same machine via another email account, but that's th

Re: auxiliary mail client for HTML

2019-11-07 Thread rhkramer
On Thursday, November 07, 2019 12:40:48 PM Nate Bargmann wrote: > * On 2019 07 Nov 09:10 -0600, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Thursday, November 07, 2019 09:06:25 AM Nate Bargmann wrote: > > > A bit late... > > > > > > What I did was set up an account at my domain > > > > I don't understand wh

Re: auxiliary mail client for HTML

2019-11-07 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2019 07 Nov 09:10 -0600, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Thursday, November 07, 2019 09:06:25 AM Nate Bargmann wrote: > > A bit late... > > > > What I did was set up an account at my domain > > I don't understand what you mean by "domain" -- do you mean your ISP, your > (local) LAN, or just

Re: auxiliary mail client for HTML

2019-11-07 Thread Curt
On 2019-11-07, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > > What I did was set up an account at my domain that I can "bounce" mail > from Neomutt and then fetch it via Evolution that is configured only for > that account. It worked well for those HTML/Javascript only mails I get > on

Re: auxiliary mail client for HTML

2019-11-07 Thread rhkramer
th a registration agent? If the latter, how does that actually work -- I mean, for example, is an ISP involved? > that I can "bounce" mail > from Neomutt and then fetch it via Evolution that is configured only for > that account. It worked well for those HTML/Javascript on

Re: auxiliary mail client for HTML

2019-11-07 Thread Nate Bargmann
A bit late... What I did was set up an account at my domain that I can "bounce" mail from Neomutt and then fetch it via Evolution that is configured only for that account. It worked well for those HTML/Javascript only mails I get on occasion. Since I use Gnome, I get Evolution "

Re: auxiliary mail client for HTML

2019-11-06 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Thu, Nov 07, 2019 at 04:31:35AM +, mick crane wrote: I've settled on Roundcube, Dovecot, Sieve, getmail Roundcube is what my old ISP was using for the webmail interface, and I used it for almost a year. But I never thought of it as a package for my desktop. And it is in the Debian arch

Re: auxiliary mail client for HTML

2019-11-06 Thread mick crane
On 2019-11-04 23:22, Russell L. Harris wrote: Several times a week I receive a HTML email with numerous links. Mutt (or neoMutt, which I am using until I upgrade my Debian installation) seems not to be a good solution for such messages. What is a decent, simple GUI client which I can point at

Re: auxiliary mail client for HTML

2019-11-06 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Wed, Nov 06, 2019 at 09:43:00AM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: Just to throw one more suggestion into the ring, I'm sure older versions of kmail can do what you want, like the one in KDE 4.8.4 / Debian Wheezy (kmail 1.13.7). The few times I have used KDE stuff it has been impressive. But

Re: auxiliary mail client for HTML

2019-11-06 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Wed, Nov 06, 2019 at 01:13:10PM +, ? wrote: How about Gnus? Below is example: https://gitlab.com/soyeomul/Gnus/blob/master/ss/IMG_20191106_215916_resized_20191106_100052740.jpg I did consider Gnus. My editor is Emacs, and ten or more years ago I did run Gnus, for about a year.

Re: auxiliary mail client for HTML

2019-11-06 Thread rhkramer
On Wednesday, November 06, 2019 08:13:10 AM 황병희 wrote: > > Several times a week I receive a HTML email with numerous links. Mutt > > (or neoMutt, which I am using until I upgrade my Debian installation) > > seems not to be a good solution for such messages. Just to throw one mo

Re: auxiliary mail client for HTML

2019-11-06 Thread 황병희
"Russell L. Harris" writes: > Several times a week I receive a HTML email with numerous links. Mutt > (or neoMutt, which I am using until I upgrade my Debian installation) > seems not to be a good solution for such messages. How about Gnus? Below is example: https://gitla

Re: auxiliary mail client for HTML

2019-11-06 Thread 황병희
"Russell L. Harris" writes: > Several times a week I receive a HTML email with numerous links. Mutt > (or neoMutt, which I am using until I upgrade my Debian installation) > seems not to be a good solution for such messages. How about Gnus? Below is example: https://gitla

Re: auxiliary mail client for HTML

2019-11-06 Thread 황병희
"Russell L. Harris" writes: > Several times a week I receive a HTML email with numerous links. Mutt > (or neoMutt, which I am using until I upgrade my Debian installation) > seems not to be a good solution for such messages. How about Gnus? Below is example: https://gitla

Re: auxiliary mail client for HTML

2019-11-04 Thread Mark Rousell
On 05/11/2019 05:57, Russell L. Harris wrote: > For some reason which I do not immediately recall, I chose POP3 over > IMAP the last time I had the option. That would make sense. POP3 is best for when you want to download everything for local processing, as you are doing. IMAP makes more sense wh

Re: auxiliary mail client for HTML

2019-11-04 Thread Russell L. Harris
getmail and maildir, but my last usage of Thunderbird was ten years ago. I should also say that I only suggested setting up a local IMAP server as a way to let Thunderbird access your email. My smiley was because this might be overkill solely in order to see emails with HTML content! But it'

Re: auxiliary mail client for HTML

2019-11-04 Thread darb
* Russell L. Harris wrote: > Several times a week I receive a HTML email with numerous links. Mutt > (or neoMutt, which I am using until I upgrade my Debian installation) > seems not to be a good solution for such messages. > > What is a decent, simple GUI client which I can poin

Re: auxiliary mail client for HTML

2019-11-04 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 4 Nov 2019 23:22:58 + "Russell L. Harris" wrote: > Several times a week I receive a HTML email with numerous links. Mutt > (or neoMutt, which I am using until I upgrade my Debian installation) > seems not to be a good solution for such messages. > > Wha

Re: auxiliary mail client for HTML

2019-11-04 Thread Mark Rousell
t I only suggested setting up a local IMAP server as a way to let Thunderbird access your email. My smiley was because this might be overkill solely in order to see emails with HTML content! But it's not actually that unreasonable, come to think of it. I just had a quick look at this HOWTO

Re: auxiliary mail client for HTML

2019-11-04 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Tue, Nov 05, 2019 at 04:10:17AM +, Mark Rousell wrote: Set up a local IMAP server instead? :-) I found a HOWTO: https://www.linux.com/news/how-build-local-imap-server/ but I have not read though it. Is it necessary to route all my mail through the local IMAP server? Mail with getmail an

Re: auxiliary mail client for HTML

2019-11-04 Thread Mark Rousell
On 05/11/2019 03:04, Russell L. Harris wrote: > I installed Thunderbird -- what a huge truck-load of stuff! But the > configuration wizard would not allow me simply to point Thunderbird to > the maildir to which getmail delivers incoming messages. Thunderbird has *experimental* maildir (actually

Re: auxiliary mail client for HTML

2019-11-04 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Tue, 5 Nov 2019, Russell L. Harris wrote: > Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2019 22:04:57 > From: Russell L. Harris > To: Jude DaShiell > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: auxiliary mail client for HTML > Resent-Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2019 03:51:38 + (UTC) > Res

Re: auxiliary mail client for HTML

2019-11-04 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Mon, Nov 04, 2019 at 09:46:14PM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: urlscan and a macro to bring urlscan up once a link got highlighted would help if you still want to use mutt or neomutt. I am using urlscan. I would be happy to forward to you one or two sample messages; each has a dozen links, and

Re: auxiliary mail client for HTML

2019-11-04 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Mon, 4 Nov 2019, Russell L. Harris wrote: > Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2019 18:22:58 > From: Russell L. Harris > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: auxiliary mail client for HTML > Resent-Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2019 23:43:57 + (UTC) > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org

auxiliary mail client for HTML

2019-11-04 Thread Russell L. Harris
Several times a week I receive a HTML email with numerous links. Mutt (or neoMutt, which I am using until I upgrade my Debian installation) seems not to be a good solution for such messages. What is a decent, simple GUI client which I can point at my maildir structure to read such messages and

Re: Perl displayed as text, Not HTML

2019-09-30 Thread Nicolas George
Dan Ritter (12019-09-30): > Anyway: you need a perl module to run perl CGI: > libapache2-mod-perl2 This is not true at all. To run a CGI, the web server does not need anything specific. CGI are external programs following a specific convention (environment variables and output). Running a CGI wri

Re: Perl displayed as text, Not HTML

2019-09-30 Thread Dan Ritter
Dave wrote: > hello > > when a .pl file or .cgi file is clicked on  to our server, apache is > serving back a text code page, not html > > all of our sites were working under the old service Deb 4, our new > Server Deb 9.x has a setting off. > > we have included a

Perl displayed as text, Not HTML

2019-09-30 Thread Dave
hello when a .pl file or .cgi file is clicked on  to our server, apache is serving back a text code page, not html all of our sites were working under the old service Deb 4, our new Server Deb 9.x has a setting off. we have included a link to our http.conf file. http://culser.com/ex/apache2

Re: HTML mail

2019-07-12 Thread tomas
On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 01:00:11PM -0600, Thomas D Dial wrote: > On Thu, 2019-07-11 at 14:46 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] > > My bank offers a standardized protocol based on public key > > cryptography. [...] > > No browser involved. > > Can you name the bank? It has annoyed me for bet

Re: HTML mail

2019-07-11 Thread Thomas D Dial
tc, etc. ad nauseam. *None* of them > > > are > > > going to remove HTML and/or CSS from their emails until something > > > 'better'(2) comes along. > > > > Some banks have found something "better". Their emails contain a > > l

Re: HTML mail

2019-07-11 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 02:49:41PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > By and large, people simply do not care. > In fact, it seems most would rather have pretty than be safe. For a > certain value of 'safe', obviously. I think "convenient" more than "pretty". (This idea stolen from Bruce Schneier.) --

Re: HTML mail

2019-07-11 Thread Dan Purgert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Brad Rogers wrote: > [...] > > By and large, people simply do not care. > In fact, it seems most would rather have pretty than be safe. For a > certain value of 'safe', obviously. There's a certain elegance to amber-on-black... -BEGIN PGP SIGN

Re: HTML mail

2019-07-11 Thread Gene Heskett
seam. *None* > > > of them are going to remove HTML and/or CSS from their emails > > > until something 'better'(2) comes along. > > > > Some banks have found something "better". Their emails contain a > > link which automatically opens a

Re: HTML mail

2019-07-11 Thread David Wright
On Thu 11 Jul 2019 at 07:26:00 (-0500), John Hasler wrote: > Brad Rogers writes: > > Except that the worst offenders are commercial entities such google, > > ebay(1), all banks, amazon, etc, etc. ad nauseam. *None* of them are > > going to remove HTML and/or CSS from their e

Re: HTML mail

2019-07-11 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 02:49:41PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > By and large, people simply do not care. > In fact, it seems most would rather have pretty than be safe. For a > certain value of 'safe', obviously. And a certain value of "pretty".

Re: HTML mail

2019-07-11 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 11 Jul 2019 11:31:54 +0200 wrote: Hello to...@tuxteam.de, >That's where talking to people comes in. By and large, people simply do not care. In fact, it seems most would rather have pretty than be safe. For a certain value of 'safe', obviously. -- Regards _ / ) "

Re: HTML mail

2019-07-11 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 11 Jul 2019 07:26:00 -0500 John Hasler wrote: Hello John, >assume that everyone reads email in a browser, of course). They claim >this is more secure. They can claim it, but they're wrong. The safest, most secure way is to send plain text, without any links at all. Safer still; Neve

Re: HTML mail

2019-07-11 Thread tomas
On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 07:26:00AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Brad Rogers writes: > > Except that the worst offenders are commercial entities such google, > > ebay(1), all banks, amazon, etc, etc. ad nauseam. *None* of them are > > going to remove HTML and/or CSS fr

Re: HTML mail

2019-07-11 Thread John Hasler
Brad Rogers writes: > Except that the worst offenders are commercial entities such google, > ebay(1), all banks, amazon, etc, etc. ad nauseam. *None* of them are > going to remove HTML and/or CSS from their emails until something > 'better'(2) comes along. Some banks have f

Re: HTML mail

2019-07-11 Thread John Crawley
On 2019-07-11 16:10, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Jo, 11 iul 19, 15:52:56, John Crawley wrote: On 2019-07-11 15:25, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Jo, 11 iul 19, 12:31:07, John Crawley wrote: ...user agents that could deal with html in some sane way, and without exposing the recipient to attacks

Re: HTML mail

2019-07-11 Thread tomas
gt; ebay(1), all banks, amazon, etc, etc. ad nauseam. *None* of them are > going to remove HTML and/or CSS from their emails until something > 'better'(2) comes along. But giving up is not an option. > Don't forget, either, that most computer users simply don't care wha

Re: HTML mail

2019-07-11 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 11 Jul 2019 10:03:34 +0200 wrote: Hello to...@tuxteam.de, >enough to yell at the sender to fix his/her MUA. Except that the worst offenders are commercial entities such google, ebay(1), all banks, amazon, etc, etc. ad nauseam. *None* of them are going to remove HTML and/or CSS f

Re: HTML mail

2019-07-11 Thread tomas
On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 10:10:16AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 11 iul 19, 15:52:56, John Crawley wrote: [...] > > A) Display html as-is, tags and all > > B) Strip out the tags and display what's left, like html2text > > > > I think B) is the better opt

Re: HTML mail

2019-07-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 11 July 2019 02:52:56 John Crawley wrote: > On 2019-07-11 15:25, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Jo, 11 iul 19, 12:31:07, John Crawley wrote: > >> ...user agents that could deal with html in some sane way, and > >> without exposing the recipient to attack

Re: HTML mail

2019-07-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 11 iul 19, 15:52:56, John Crawley wrote: > On 2019-07-11 15:25, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Jo, 11 iul 19, 12:31:07, John Crawley wrote: > > > ...user agents that could deal with html in some sane way, and without > > > exposing the recipient to attacks. Simply

Re: HTML mail

2019-07-10 Thread John Crawley
On 2019-07-11 15:25, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Jo, 11 iul 19, 12:31:07, John Crawley wrote: ...user agents that could deal with html in some sane way, and without exposing the recipient to attacks. Simply not following any web links would be enough I'd have thought? Or are there some more s

Re: HTML mail (was: chromebook)

2019-07-10 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 11 iul 19, 12:31:07, John Crawley wrote: > > I was never trying to claim that it was OK to send messages as html - I > always use plain text myself - but I thought there might be something to be > said for user agents that could deal with html in some sane way, and without &g

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