Re: mail messages with only html
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 -
Not tested but you can try this procmail recipe:
8--
:0
* ^Content-Type:.*text/html
{
HEADER=`formail -X '' |sed 's|text/html|text/plain|'`
BODY=`formail -I '' |w3m -dump -T text/html -`
:0fw
|/dev/null echo -e ${HEADER}\n\n${BODY}\n
}
8--
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Re: mail messages with only html
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 \
echo This HTML message has been made into text by lynx \
echo
- END OF REPLIED MESSAGE -
Better:
# create backup for de-html'd email
:0
* ^Content-Type: text/html
{
:0c
de-html-backup
# de-html
:0 fbw
* ^Content-Type:[ ]*text/html
| lynx -dump -stdin -nolist \
echo \
echo \
echo This HTML message has been made into text by lynx \
echo
}
Thanks, Greetings and nice Day
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Re: mail messages with only html
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:[ ]*text/html
| lynx -dump -stdin -nolist \
echo \
echo \
echo This HTML message has been made into text by lynx \
echo
- END OF REPLIED MESSAGE -
Better:
# create backup for de-html'd email
:0
* ^Content-Type: text/html
{
:0c
de-html-backup
# de-html
:0 fbw
* ^Content-Type:[ ]*text/html
| lynx -dump -stdin -nolist \
echo \
echo \
echo This HTML message has been made into text by lynx \
echo
}
Thanks, Greetings and nice Day
Michelle Konzack
Systemadministrator
Tamay Dogan Network
Debian GNU/Linux Consultant
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Re: mail messages with only html
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 various useful comments. I do not have procmail running at the moment, so this will have to wait till I have time to check I don't break something, but I have saved your code snippet etc. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mail messages with only html
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. Thanks John. That seems to be the definitively best way to go. I just have to work out how to reliably identify or flag the offending messages for treatment. All html mail should have content type set to text/html Also, IMAP won't care if you change the message. You just upload the message as a new message. I do it all the time with I add labels etc. It will be better if I leave the headers alone, so that threading doesn't get broken. Well, I was talking about created a brand new message. When I add labels etc, I add header lines, but the message itself is like the original. But as far as IMAP is concerned, I deleted the old message and uploaded a new message. As long the In-Reply-To header is still there, the threading shouldn't be broken Ok, I suppose that is obvious, but I have never tinkered with mail before. Thanks for the help. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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 usually Not a direct answer to your question, but if you are using mutt under X, then there are html viewers that can hook into mutt. Not just X. w3m works just fine with mutt. (0) heretic /home/keeling_ grep w3m mutt/mailcap multipart/alternative ; /usr/bin/w3m -dump %s; copiousoutput; nametemplate=%s.html multipart/related ; /usr/bin/w3m -dump %s; copiousoutput; nametemplate=%s.html text/html ; /usr/bin/w3m -T text/html -dump %s ; copiousoutput -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*)http://blinkynet.net/comp/uip5.html Linux Counter #80292 - -http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.htmlPlease, don't Cc: me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mail messages with only html
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 sending blank messages with an html attachment only. Of course this is usually Not a direct answer to your question, but if you are using mutt under X, then there are html viewers that can hook into mutt. Not just X. w3m works just fine with mutt. (0) heretic /home/keeling_ grep w3m mutt/mailcap multipart/alternative ; /usr/bin/w3m -dump %s; copiousoutput; nametemplate=%s.html multipart/related ; /usr/bin/w3m -dump %s; copiousoutput; nametemplate=%s.html text/html ; /usr/bin/w3m -T text/html -dump %s ; copiousoutput Thanks. I have now set up mutt and mailcap as you and Benjamin suggest and the whole issue is greatly eased. The reply function also now picks up the w3m output as someone else indicated so it is pretty convenient. I probably shall one day set up the filter to scrap the html part completely and save only the email version (by which I mean plain text), but it is no longer urgent. Another example of my having given up without learning enoough first :-( But thanks to everybody for the support. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mail messages with only html
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 output back into the message body. Sounds a good idea. I'll have to wait till I'm feeling strong before starting on that though. Procmail scares me. Perhaps the exim filter facility can do it without needing procmail? Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mail messages with only html
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 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 [...] There are viewers that can hook into Mutt even if you don't run it under X. In .muttrc: auto_view text/html In .mailcap: text/html; w3m -dump -T text/html '%s'; copiousoutput Or: text/html; lynx -dump '%s'; copiousoutput # or something like that. Or use the pipe function to feed it into one of those viewers, for an interactive session. 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. The best approach might be to take the output of w3m (or links2, elinks, or lynx) and write that back instead of the original attachment. Then the archive copy will be neat and parsimonious, and any reply will have text to edit. I wonder how to find $myMessageId to do that. Could even automate it so that it happens for every void email with an html attachment before I even open it... -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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 version of message, and not the plain text. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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/html version of the message and click on r, mutt will quote the text/html version of message, and not the plain text. nice. thanks! learn something every day. A signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: mail messages with only html
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 Lyons wrote: [...] 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 [...] There are viewers that can hook into Mutt even if you don't run it under X. In .muttrc: auto_view text/html In .mailcap: text/html; w3m -dump -T text/html '%s'; copiousoutput Or: text/html; lynx -dump '%s'; copiousoutput # or something like that. Or use the pipe function to feed it into one of those viewers, for an interactive session. 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. The best approach might be to take the output of w3m (or links2, elinks, or lynx) and write that back instead of the original attachment. 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 output back into the message body. A signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: mail messages with only html
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 SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/13/07 17:36, Richard Lyons wrote: [...] 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 [...] There are viewers that can hook into Mutt even if you don't run it under X. In .muttrc: auto_view text/html In .mailcap: text/html; w3m -dump -T text/html '%s'; copiousoutput Or: text/html; lynx -dump '%s'; copiousoutput # or something like that. Or use the pipe function to feed it into one of those viewers, for an interactive session. 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. The best approach might be to take the output of w3m (or links2, elinks, or lynx) and write that back instead of the original attachment. 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 output back into the message body. Sounds a good idea. I'll have to wait till I'm feeling strong before starting on that though. Procmail scares me. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mail messages with only html
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/html version of the message and click on r, mutt will quote the text/html version of message, and not the plain text. 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. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mail messages with only html
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 it) and write the bare text back into the source email so that I can see it? The html attachment could be left in place or discarded, it usually won't matter which. Or would this mess up the IMAP or Maildir indexing in some way? 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 work out how to reliably identify or flag the offending messages for treatment. Also, IMAP won't care if you change the message. You just upload the message as a new message. I do it all the time with I add labels etc. It will be better if I leave the headers alone, so that threading doesn't get broken. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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) signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: mail messages with only html
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 put a little note at the bottom of the message letting you know this message was processed with lynx. Now how to move the message parts into the main message body wasn't described in the procmail article I read earlier. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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 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 version of message, and not the plain text. nice. thanks! learn something every day. I believe there is a setting in mutt which lets you give a precedence to which mime encoding attachment to view first text/plain or maybe for you the html one ? A signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: mail messages with only html
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'; copiousoutput # or something like that. or text/html; /usr/bin/elinks -force-html -dump -source '%s'; copiousoutput; description=HTML Text; nametemplate=%s.html which, among other things, gives you a numbered list of links. 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. This isn't true for me: the quoted text sent to the editor for the reply includes all the auto_view'd attachments, including text, html, doc, pdf, ... with the [-- Autoview using ... --] header removed. Maybe I've tried a trick that you haven't, or you get more pathological messages than I do. Rob -- Rob Mahurin Dept. of Physics Astronomy University of Tennessee phone: 865 207 2594 Knoxville, TN 37996email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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 page, I'd say it scares me less. I've noted it for a rainy weekend. Thanks. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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 -dump -stdin -nolist and back out into the message stream. So far, so good... They also put a little note at the bottom of the message letting you know this message was processed with lynx. Useful... Now how to move the message parts into the main message body wasn't described in the procmail article I read earlier. Pity. Still, this is getting very near to a plan. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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. 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 version of message, and not the plain text. nice. thanks! learn something every day. I believe there is a setting in mutt which lets you give a precedence to which mime encoding attachment to view first text/plain or maybe for you the html one ? Thanks, that I didn't know. But I am veering toward the mailfilter alternative: it should give more like the functionality I would like. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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-html-backup # de-html :0 fbw * ^Content-Type:[ ]*text/html | lynx -dump -stdin -nolist \ echo \ echo \ echo This HTML message has been made into text by lynx \ echo cut here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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 work out how to reliably identify or flag the offending messages for treatment. All html mail should have content type set to text/html Also, IMAP won't care if you change the message. You just upload the message as a new message. I do it all the time with I add labels etc. It will be better if I leave the headers alone, so that threading doesn't get broken. Well, I was talking about created a brand new message. When I add labels etc, I add header lines, but the message itself is like the original. But as far as IMAP is concerned, I deleted the old message and uploaded a new message. As long the In-Reply-To header is still there, the threading shouldn't be broken -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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 usually a sign of spam, and I usually delete such messages without wasting time wondering what might be in them. But I do get some messages in this form that I want to read, and even keep. 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? The html attachment could be left in place or discarded, it usually won't matter which. Or would this mess up the IMAP or Maildir indexing in some way? Obviously there are plenty of examples of html-strippers around, but generally the output lands up somewhere else, and it would be a great help if the missing original message could be inserted so as to be viewable while browsing the email folder hierarchy. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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-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 is usually a sign of spam, and I usually delete such messages without wasting time wondering what might be in them. But I do get some messages in this form that I want to read, and even keep. 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? The html attachment could be left in place or discarded, it usually won't matter which. Or would this mess up the IMAP or Maildir indexing in some way? Obviously there are plenty of examples of html-strippers around, but generally the output lands up somewhere else, and it would be a great help if the missing original message could be inserted so as to be viewable while browsing the email folder hierarchy. Not a direct answer to your question, but if you are using mutt under X, then there are html viewers that can hook into mutt. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG6b29S9HxQb37XmcRArWpAJ43ndkzbzCPS1mnvdbmBt8oHzbzjQCg4ZiJ GK7cboXfkXqLA6xn/9MySMI= =wwGb -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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 on sending blank messages with an html attachment only. Of course this is usually a sign of spam, and I usually delete such messages without wasting time wondering what might be in them. But I do get some messages in this form that I want to read, and even keep. 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? The html attachment could be left in place or discarded, it usually won't matter which. Or would this mess up the IMAP or Maildir indexing in some way? Obviously there are plenty of examples of html-strippers around, but generally the output lands up somewhere else, and it would be a great help if the missing original message could be inserted so as to be viewable while browsing the email folder hierarchy. Not a direct answer to your question, but if you are using mutt under X, then there are html viewers that can hook into mutt. There are viewers that can hook into Mutt even if you don't run it under X. In .muttrc: auto_view text/html In .mailcap: text/html; w3m -dump -T text/html '%s'; copiousoutput Or: text/html; lynx -dump '%s'; copiousoutput # or something like that. Or use the pipe function to feed it into one of those viewers, for an interactive session. I could be wrong, but I don't think that editing the contents of a message would mess up the indexing (most applications that I know of only index the headers). On the other hand, it might be safest to write it to a new file in the maildir, with a new unique name. -- Benjamin A'Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://subvert.org.uk/~bma/ A fan club is a group of people who tell an actor he's not alone in the way he feels about himself. - Kenneth Williams signature.asc Description: Digital signature
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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? The html attachment could be left in place or discarded, it usually won't matter which. Or would this mess up the IMAP or Maildir indexing in some way? 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. Also, IMAP won't care if you change the message. You just upload the message as a new message. I do it all the time with I add labels etc. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
