Re: Viewing HTML in a real browser
On 2013-12-14, Chris Down ch...@chrisdown.name wrote: Occasionally I get complex HTML e-mails that don't quite work in w3m (which is what I have in my mailcap to view text/html). In these instances, I would like to be able to somehow view these in my browser. Right now my procedure is this: - Go to attach - Save the html part as /tmp/foo.html - Open my browser - Open file:///tmp/foo.html Is there some way I can automate this better, say, by being able to hit a key and have the HTML part of the message open in the browser? My browser is Chromium, but I think any generic solution should be adaptable. Thanks. While I was reading this thread, I remembered that, in the past, it was more frequent to see email messages as files under Microsoft Windows. I am not sure if it is exactly the same thing, but there is MHTML and Wikipedia says The content of an MHTML file is encoded as if it were an HTML e-mail message, using the MIME type multipart/related. While vanilla Firefox does not support MHTML out of the box, I tried https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/unmht/ which is indeed able to render email messages with embedded pictures (you may need to add the .mht extension to the file, I'm not sure about this). I don't know if there is something similar for Google Chrome, but I thought this could help, at least, Firefox users. -- Nuno Silva (aka njsg) Helsinki, Finland
Re: Viewing HTML in a real browser
* Chris Down on Sunday, December 15, 2013 at 12:00:45 +0800 On 2013-12-14 14:08:35 +, Christian Ebert wrote: Shameless plug: https://bitbucket.org/blacktrash/muttils has a viewhtmlmsg script which can be bound to a key. This looks pretty nice, thanks. Some of the checks it does seem quite useful. Perhaps some of it could be mitigated in-browser instead by using switches to disable unsafe content. You can just use it without the --safe option? -- theatre - books - texts - movies Black Trash Productions at home: http://www.blacktrash.org Black Trash Productions on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/blacktrashproductions
Re: Viewing HTML in a real browser
On 2013-12-15 12:32:40 +, Christian Ebert wrote: You can just use it without the --safe option? Right -- my point was about doing it without an external script. For now catting it to a file and opening it in chromium is sufficient, but it has some annoying caveats (charset, unsafe stuff)... thankfully I do this infrequently (and specifically) enough that that isn't really an issue though. Thanks, though. :-) pgp8AsdBy1ZWP.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Viewing HTML in a real browser
On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 08:27:09PM +0800, Chris Down wrote:
Occasionally I get complex HTML e-mails that don't quite work in w3m
(which is what I have in my mailcap to view text/html). In these
instances, I would like to be able to somehow view these in my browser.
Right now my procedure is this:
- Go to attach
- Save the html part as /tmp/foo.html
- Open my browser
- Open file:///tmp/foo.html
Is there some way I can automate this better, say, by being able to hit
a key and have the HTML part of the message open in the browser?
My browser is Chromium, but I think any generic solution should be
adaptable.
If you Google pipe to browser, you'll find various tools that will
do this for you. I use one on the Mac called simply browser, but
there are others. Then in mutt you could simply view the list of parts
('v' command) and pipe the html ('|' command) to one of those.
I think these mostly just do what you're doing ... save the html to a
temp file and open that in the default browser.
Re: Viewing HTML in a real browser
On 2013-12-14 07:43:31 -0500, Peter Davis wrote:
If you Google pipe to browser, you'll find various tools that will
do this for you. I use one on the Mac called simply browser, but
there are others. Then in mutt you could simply view the list of parts
('v' command) and pipe the html ('|' command) to one of those.
I think these mostly just do what you're doing ... save the html to a
temp file and open that in the default browser.
Well, this is the macro I currently use:
macro attach B pipe-messagecat /tmp/mutt.html; chromium
/tmp/mutt.htmlenter
That obviously has a race condition, but in practise it's not an issue.
The one thing that annoys me is that I have to go into the attach menu
to select the HTML part to do this. If I pipe from the pager, I might
end up piping the text/plain part (which, in one particular case, says
You need HTML to view this message -- what the?!).
pgpHVXpmRUAqQ.pgp
Description: PGP signature
Re: Viewing HTML in a real browser
* Chris Down on Saturday, December 14, 2013 at 20:27:09 +0800 Occasionally I get complex HTML e-mails that don't quite work in w3m (which is what I have in my mailcap to view text/html). In these instances, I would like to be able to somehow view these in my browser. Right now my procedure is this: - Go to attach - Save the html part as /tmp/foo.html - Open my browser - Open file:///tmp/foo.html Is there some way I can automate this better, say, by being able to hit a key and have the HTML part of the message open in the browser? Shameless plug: https://bitbucket.org/blacktrash/muttils has a viewhtmlmsg script which can be bound to a key. -- _BAUSTELLEN_ lesen! --- http://www.blacktrash.org/baustellen
Re: Viewing HTML in a real browser
On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 02:08:35PM +, Christian Ebert wrote: * Chris Down on Saturday, December 14, 2013 at 20:27:09 +0800 Occasionally I get complex HTML e-mails that don't quite work in w3m (which is what I have in my mailcap to view text/html). In these instances, I would like to be able to somehow view these in my browser. Right now my procedure is this: - Go to attach - Save the html part as /tmp/foo.html - Open my browser - Open file:///tmp/foo.html Is there some way I can automate this better, say, by being able to hit a key and have the HTML part of the message open in the browser? Shameless plug: https://bitbucket.org/blacktrash/muttils has a viewhtmlmsg script which can be bound to a key. I use this regularly and find it very useful, thanks. -- Will Fiveash
Re: Viewing HTML in a real browser
Quoting Chris Down ch...@chrisdown.name on Sat, Dec 14 20:27: Occasionally I get complex HTML e-mails that don't quite work in w3m (which is what I have in my mailcap to view text/html). In these instances, I would like to be able to somehow view these in my browser. Right now my procedure is this: muttils http://www.blacktrash.org/hg/muttils/ has a viewhtmlmsg program designed exactly for this. macro index,pager V |viewhtmlmsg\n View HTML msg in browser -- Afternoon, n.: That part of the day we spend worrying about how we wasted the morning. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
Re: Viewing HTML in a real browser
On Dec 14, 2013 at 08:27 PM +0800, Chris Down wrote: My browser is Chromium, but I think any generic solution should be adaptable. I use Christian's script for complex html messages, particularly ones that have images attached in the email. However, it's a bit slower sometimes then just opening up the html attachment via mailcap. I have two entries in my mailcap, one for viewing in Safari (on OS X) and one for viewing in mutt via w3m and the copious output setting. view-attach shows the w3m version in the pager and view-mailcap saves the html in a temp directory and opens it in Safari, using Eric Gebhart's view_attachment script. text/html; /Users/me/bin/view_attachment %s html Safari ; text/html; /usr/local/bin/w3m -dump %s; copiousoutput; nametemplate=%s.html
Re: Viewing HTML in a real browser
On 2013-12-14 18:03:57 -0500, Tim Gray wrote:
I use Christian's script for complex html messages, particularly ones that
have images attached in the email. However, it's a bit slower sometimes
then just opening up the html attachment via mailcap.
Thankfully I only plan to do this in instances where `w3m -dump` doesn't
suffice. :-)
I have two entries in my mailcap, one for viewing in Safari (on OS X)
and one for viewing in mutt via w3m and the copious output setting.
view-attach shows the w3m version in the pager and view-mailcap saves
the html in a temp directory and opens it in Safari, using Eric
Gebhart's view_attachment script.
text/html; /Users/me/bin/view_attachment %s html Safari ;
text/html; /usr/local/bin/w3m -dump %s; copiousoutput; nametemplate=%s.html
I believe since w3m can take input from stdin you don't need to use
nametemplate, and you can do something like the following instead:
text/html; w3m -I %{charset} -T text/html -dump; copiousoutput
pgpqF7OjZ_HM3.pgp
Description: PGP signature
Re: Viewing HTML in a real browser
On 2013-12-14 14:08:35 +, Christian Ebert wrote: Shameless plug: https://bitbucket.org/blacktrash/muttils has a viewhtmlmsg script which can be bound to a key. This looks pretty nice, thanks. Some of the checks it does seem quite useful. Perhaps some of it could be mitigated in-browser instead by using switches to disable unsafe content. pgpoYREwYDuW1.pgp Description: PGP signature
