David's mail reminded me to reply to this.
conrad wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Wondering what folk use these days to render HTML emails in a terminal
> window? I've an old recipe which I picked up from the list as follows:
I have a script I use when what I get from elinks -dump -force-html in
my terminal window isn't sufficient. It invokes Thunderbird on a copy
of the message:
#!/bin/bash
msg=( $(mhpath "${@:-cur}") ) || exit
if [ ${#msg[*]} != 1 ]
then
echo Exactly one message at a time allowed. >&2
exit 1
fi
cp ${msg[0]} /tmp/$(whoami)-message.eml || exit
echo "Starting thunderbird in the background."
thunderbird -file /tmp/$whoami-message.eml &
(I believe that's correct -- but it's extracted from a longer script,
and I can't really test this snippet at the moment.)
Once nice feature of this is that when invoked like this, thunderbird
disables external URL links unless you click otherwise, which makes it a
little safer than a raw browser. And it's usually sufficient let me
get the context of the message.
paul
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