Re: graphical mail reader for one-off use
Ken wrote: > I think a BIG problem with this is that doesn't get you the "complete" > message. The main issue here is embedded images with Content-ID URLs; Yeah. I view showing them separately as a feature but maybe I shouldn't. David
Re: graphical mail reader for one-off use
>To answer my own question, mhshow can be customized to use the user's >preferred mail reader. Ken mentioned w3m with display_link_number. I >use firefox, I find that its performance on a modern machine with an SSD >drive is adequate. I think a BIG problem with this is that doesn't get you the "complete" message. The main issue here is embedded images with Content-ID URLs; in _theory_ I suppose you could write out the embedded images as files and rewrite the HTML content to point to those local files, but that just seems fraught and fragile. Another issue I personally run into is I occasonally get S/MIME messages I have to decrypt and that basically needs the whole message as well (in a perfect world nmh would handle those natively and that is on my list, but that list is long and sadly I don't have the time right now to work on that list). I know that many times just viewing the HTML content sans images is sufficient, but I've certainly run into situations where it isn't. --Ken
Re: graphical mail reader for one-off use
Paul wrote: > david wrote: > > Paul wrote: > > > > > My working bash snippet (trimmed to remove some extraneous local > oddities). > > > > Just curious: does mhshow(1) do want you want, assuming you don't > > use it to read all of your messages? > > I'm not sure of the context of your question. I apologize, I should have provided that. When I read your original message, my first thought was "what's missing from nmh so Paul can view a message with a modern graphical reader?" To answer my own question, mhshow can be customized to use the user's preferred mail reader. Ken mentioned w3m with display_link_number. I use firefox, I find that its performance on a modern machine with an SSD drive is adequate. mhshow can be coaxed to use some of your thunderbird wrapper script with a profile entry such as: mhshow-show-text/html: cp $(mhpath cur) /tmp/$(whoami)-message.eml && thunderbird -file /tmp/$(whoami)-message.eml Of course, all user preference. David
Re: graphical mail reader for one-off use
david wrote: > Paul wrote: > > > My working bash snippet (trimmed to remove some extraneous local oddities). > > Just curious: does mhshow(1) do want you want, assuming you don't > use it to read all of your messages? I'm not sure of the context of your question. I almost never use the raw mshow command, if that's what you mean. It's wrapped for a variety of small personal preference reasons, and to simplify flow: first I want to see the body (sometimes the text part, sometimes the html part), and then I may or may not want to see or save any attachments. And I get all that by typing "p". I'm sure others have similar workflow helpers. I can expand on any of that if you'd like, though maybe it should be with a Subject change. paul =-- paul fox, p...@foxharp.boston.ma.us (arlington, ma, where it's 70.7 degrees)
