Re: mail messages with only html

2007-09-18 Thread Jude DaShiell
Right, those braces now logically link those two recipes together into one unit. On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2007-09-14 16:54:27, schrieb Jude DaShiell: # create backup for de-html'd email :0 c * ^Content-Type: text/html de-html-backup # de-html :0 fbw * ^Content-Type:[

Re: mail messages with only html

2007-09-18 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-09-14 16:54:27, schrieb Jude DaShiell: > # create backup for de-html'd email > :0 c > * ^Content-Type: text/html > de-html-backup > > # de-html > :0 fbw > * ^Content-Type:[ ]*text/html > | lynx -dump -stdin -nolist \ > && echo "" \ > && echo "===

Re: mail messages with only html

2007-09-18 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-09-14 18:15:39, schrieb Richard Lyons: > My mutt doesn't do that. Just gives me a blank page (i.e. the contents > of the empty email without the html attachment). Anyway I want to have > the html stripped of tags to reply to. - END OF REPLIED MESSAGE --

Re: mail messages with only html

2007-09-15 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 06:09:14PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 09:33:37AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > that's what others were saying about using procmail (or some other > > MDA) to pipe the message through a console based html reader and > > dumping the outpu

Re: mail messages with only html

2007-09-15 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 07:59:13PM +0200, s. keeling wrote: > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > On 09/13/07 17:36, Richard Lyons wrote: > > > This is becoming more of a problem. There is a growing number of firms > > > that are incapable of sending out normal emails. They insist on send

Re: mail messages with only html

2007-09-15 Thread s. keeling
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On 09/13/07 17:36, Richard Lyons wrote: > > This is becoming more of a problem. There is a growing number of firms > > that are incapable of sending out normal emails. They insist on sending > > blank messages with an html attachment only. Of course this is

Re: mail messages with only html

2007-09-15 Thread Richard Lyons
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 02:18:08PM -0700, John L Fjellstad wrote: > Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> I fail to see why you couldn't write a filter (using maildrop or > >> procmail) to pipe the message through w3m -dump (or links -dump) before > >> storing the message. > > > > Than

Re: mail messages with only html

2007-09-15 Thread Richard Lyons
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 10:42:00PM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > If there's another plumbing facility like lynx that can move parts into > message bodies that could be attached to the lynx pipe so the message > first goes through the part shifter and then goes through lynx. Jude thanks for your

Re: mail messages with only html

2007-09-14 Thread Jude DaShiell
If there's another plumbing facility like lynx that can move parts into message bodies that could be attached to the lynx pipe so the message first goes through the part shifter and then goes through lynx. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: mail messages with only html

2007-09-14 Thread John L Fjellstad
Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I fail to see why you couldn't write a filter (using maildrop or >> procmail) to pipe the message through w3m -dump (or links -dump) before >> storing the message. > > Thanks John. That seems to be the definitively best way to go. I just > have to wor

Re: mail messages with only html

2007-09-14 Thread Jude DaShiell
What I have over here appears to be working since the de-html-backup file already has 29 lines of text in it. So here's a little patch to be placed in the .procmailrc file above the default recipe if one exists. Cut here: # create backup for de-html'd email :0 c * ^Content-Type: text/html de-

Re: mail messages with only html

2007-09-14 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 06:54:46AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 09:32:39AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 09:02:56AM -0700, John L Fjellstad wrote: > > > Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > Obviously a better method, yes.

Re: mail messages with only html

2007-09-14 Thread Richard Lyons
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 03:50:13PM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > I have a couple procmail scripts that can deal with html messages provided > the html is in the main message body. What they do is to backup the > message first to another folder; then they run the message contents > through lynx

Re: mail messages with only html

2007-09-14 Thread Richard Lyons
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 08:29:48PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Sounds a good idea. I'll have to wait till I'm feeling strong before > > starting on that though. Procmail scares me. > > What about maildrop? After a lightning skim of the man pa

Re: mail messages with only html

2007-09-14 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 09:10:44AM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 12:24:03AM +0100, Benjamin A'Lee wrote: > > In .muttrc: > > auto_view text/html > > > > In .mailcap: > > text/html; w3m -dump -T text/html '%s'; copiousoutput > > text/html; lynx -dump '%s'; copiou

Re: mail messages with only html

2007-09-14 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 09:32:39AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 09:02:56AM -0700, John L Fjellstad wrote: > > Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Obviously a better method, yes. But when I reply, I will not get the > > > received text quoted ready

Re: mail messages with only html

2007-09-14 Thread Jude DaShiell
I have a couple procmail scripts that can deal with html messages provided the html is in the main message body. What they do is to backup the message first to another folder; then they run the message contents through lynx -dump -stdin -nolist and back out into the message stream. They also p

Re: mail messages with only html

2007-09-14 Thread Andrei Popescu
Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sounds a good idea. I'll have to wait till I'm feeling strong before > starting on that though. Procmail scares me. What about maildrop? Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) sign

Re: mail messages with only html

2007-09-14 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 08:55:46PM -0700, John L Fjellstad wrote: > Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Here is the thought that struck me: could I in principle write a script > > to take such void plus html messages, strip the tags (replacing URLs > > when the href text doesn't have

Re: mail messages with only html

2007-09-14 Thread Richard Lyons
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 09:02:56AM -0700, John L Fjellstad wrote: > Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Obviously a better method, yes. But when I reply, I will not get the > > received text quoted ready for editing if the email is void. > > If you click on v, and select the text/h

Re: mail messages with only html

2007-09-14 Thread Richard Lyons
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 09:33:37AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 09:10:44AM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 12:24:03AM +0100, Benjamin A'Lee wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 05:46:21PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > -BEGIN PGP

Re: mail messages with only html

2007-09-14 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 09:10:44AM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 12:24:03AM +0100, Benjamin A'Lee wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 05:46:21PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > On 09/13/07 17:36, Richard Lyon

Re: mail messages with only html

2007-09-14 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 09:02:56AM -0700, John L Fjellstad wrote: > Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Obviously a better method, yes. But when I reply, I will not get the > > received text quoted ready for editing if the email is void. > > If you click on v, and select the text/ht

Re: mail messages with only html

2007-09-14 Thread John L Fjellstad
Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Obviously a better method, yes. But when I reply, I will not get the > received text quoted ready for editing if the email is void. If you click on v, and select the text/html version of the message and click on r, mutt will quote the text/html versio

Re: mail messages with only html

2007-09-14 Thread Richard Lyons
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 12:24:03AM +0100, Benjamin A'Lee wrote: > On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 05:46:21PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On 09/13/07 17:36, Richard Lyons wrote: [...] > > > could I in principle write a script to take such void pl

Re: mail messages with only html

2007-09-13 Thread John L Fjellstad
Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Here is the thought that struck me: could I in principle write a script > to take such void plus html messages, strip the tags (replacing URLs > when the href text doesn't have it) and write the bare text back into > the source email so that I can see it

Re: mail messages with only html

2007-09-13 Thread Benjamin A'Lee
On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 05:46:21PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 09/13/07 17:36, Richard Lyons wrote: > > This is becoming more of a problem. There is a growing number of firms > > that are incapable of sending out normal emails. They insist o

Re: mail messages with only html

2007-09-13 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/13/07 17:36, Richard Lyons wrote: > This is becoming more of a problem. There is a growing number of firms > that are incapable of sending out normal emails. They insist on sending > blank messages with an html attachment only. Of course this