ken wrote: > > $ modern-mail-reader $(mhpath cur) > > > >and have it pop up a window on the message. > > > >Is this a practical wish? > > Well, I just tried this (I am on MacOS X): > > % cp `mhpath cur` /tmp/foo.eml > % /Applications/Thunderbird.app/Contents/MacOS/thunderbird -file /tmp/foo.eml > > And ... it seemed to do what you want! (I chose a message with embedded
Thanks Ken! I'll be giving this a try! (I would have "just tried it myself", but I don't have any modern readers installed! Small point of pride, until now. :-) > images and they were displayed correctly). I did the copy with the filename > extension because MacOS X really really wants to use filename extensions > as the identifier for a file type, and just doing "-file `mhpath cur`" > didn't work; I took a guess on the ".eml" extension and it seemed to > be correct. So I think this is a reasonable option. Huh. ".eml". I've spent years using and part-time developing email clients and servers, and never heard of that extension. Good to know. > BTW, I do use w3m as a text-based HTML viewer and I set the option > "display_link_number" so I can find the link in a message and then > copy and paste it to a web browser, so that works for a message where > I just need to find one link. Yes, we use links similarly, but sometimes the needle (i.e., which of those links is interesting) is lost in the haystack. paul =---------------------- paul fox, p...@foxharp.boston.ma.us (arlington, ma, where it's 79.9 degrees)