Re: Creating HTML emails with mutt
On Sat, Oct 26, 2019 at 11:16:25AM +1300, martin f krafft wrote: I need to start sending out `text/html` alternative parts to my messages with mutt. Hi martin, Native support for multipart/alternative composition isn't in my todo list. However, I do have a plan to allow external filter generation of the alternative. Originally, this was on my list for the next development cycle, but let me see what I can do before the 1.13 release. The current idea is a quadaption (names may change, but...) $compose_multipart_alternative combined with a script $compose_multipart_alternative_script. The script would be run post-compose menu, after checks such as $abort_noattach and $abort_nosubject, but before signing/encryption; it would not be run when postponing. If there were an error sending, the alternative would be stripped before returning to the compose menu. So it would not be exposed to the compose menu. I *might* add a function to preview the output as raw text and via mime from the compose menu though. Script output would be the content-type, a blank line, then the generated content. Anyway, that's my current plan. The problem is cleaning up some other parts of mutt to deal with bouncing, reuse as a template, etc. So, again, not sure I can deliver this before 1.13. -- Kevin J. McCarthy GPG Fingerprint: 8975 A9B3 3AA3 7910 385C 5308 ADEF 7684 8031 6BDA signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Creating HTML emails with mutt
Regarding the following, written by “Amit Ramon” on 2019-10-26 at 09:03 Uhr +0300: A few years back I developed a simple filter that does, more or less, what you’re looking for. […] https://github.com/amitramon/plainMail2HTML Thanks for the pointer. If messages aren’t PGP/MIME-signed, then both muttdown and my own tool work just fine. The question is more about how it should be done properly, than it is about which tool can do this. Thank you anyway, and I do wish I had seen your work (and muttdown) before writing it all up by myself. -- @martinkrafft | https://riot.im/app/#/room/#madduck:madduck.net heisenberg may have been here. spamtraps: madduck.bo...@madduck.net
Re: Creating HTML emails with mutt
martin f krafft [2019-10-26 11:16 +1300]: Folks, I need to start sending out text/html alternative parts to my messages with mutt. However, this is a rabbit hole, so if you’re afraid of those, stop reading now. My requirements are, in decreasing order of priority: 1. Compatible with all Gmail, Outlook, Hotmail, Apple Mail, Thunderbird, and whatever else many people are using these days. 2. Markdown processing of text/plain 3. multipart/alternative result, MIME compliant 4. Attachments 5. Sensible integration with mutt 6. PGP signatures 7. Inline images and after surveying the field, and spending hours with the solutions I found during various web searches, I am writing in to you for some feedback, input, guidance, psycological help, and maybe even some hugs. A few years back I developed a simple filter that does, more or less, what you're looking for. I believe it fulfills your first 5 requirements. I've not designed nor tested it with PGP signatures or inline images. It serves as a replacement to Mutt's sendmail command, it processes the text using reStructuredText (that should be easily switched with markdown), and the result is a multipart/alternative that contains the original message as text/plain and a text/html. I don't know how well it complies with standards, and I haven't tested the resulted mail with all possible email clients. I believe it works well with Gmail and thunderbird. If this sounds interesting, you can find it at https://github.com/amitramon/plainMail2HTML Hope it helps, Amit
