On July 29, 2002 at 21:00, Earl Hood wrote: > Jerry's message seems to imply that he wants to see > the hole message in a manner similiar to a GUI client, with images > shown inline and convenient links to attachments (which may have nothing > to do with HTML).
Right. > Once in a while, it would be nice to have a multipart message > shown in one continuous "chunk" when using the command-line > nmh interface (which I always do), but this would probably require > a custom pager. This is why I chose Mozilla's mail agent: it can take a whole multipart message and show all of it at once. (Mozilla is also more forgiving of some poorly-encoded messages that nmh complains about and quits.) I don't *always* need to see multipart messages in one window, so I have that "smoz" script for displaying messages in the cases where I need that behavior. I haven't found an easy way to do that with the nmh pager, which splits the message into its parts before handing each part to a viewer. One other reason I like to use the command-line interface first: a lot of the messages I get are just spam, and that gets obvious as soon as nmh shows me the first part. If I *don't* automatically use a whizzy HTML viewer, I can abort (by typing \^) as soon as I see that I don't want to read the message; it's quick and simple, and it doesn't allow web beacons or other spammers' tricks in the message to take effect. That said, I've learned some interesting stuff from other peoples' ideas of handling this problem. Thanks, all... Jerry -- Jerry Peek, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.jpeek.com/
