[Alpine-info] Re: display of html content

[Mike Miller]

On Sat, 12 Nov 2011, Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik wrote:


> :2011-11-12T12:45:Joe(theWordy)Philbrook:

>

>> IF the "A" toggle would still yield Alpines internal HTML rendition, 

>> how would I command it to call the browser on {*_just_the_one_*} HTML 

>> attachment?

>

> View attachment list -> select attachment -> hit view ?


That's what I always do.  Occasionally the browser is too slow and the 
temp file is gone by the time it loads, but it usually works.  My problem 
might be caused by using chromium-browser with a lot of tabs open.

Still, this method does not show the embedded images that are additional 
attachments of the message.  I think we need to open something else, like 
Thunderbird, to see those messages.

Mostly for UNIX/Linux (and possibly OS X) users:

I just decided to find my own way to deal with this problem.  I am using 
Ubuntu (but this should work on all UNIXes).  I've been annoyed by 
Thunderbird's behavior -- every time I fire it up it creates one .msf file 
for every mail folder (a.k.a. mbox file) in my ~/mail directory.  It also 
creates an empty ~/mail/Inbox file that I don't want.  My Alpine inbox 
file is ~/mail/inbox (of course Linux file systems are case sensitive).

So this is what I did to make things work for myself:

mkdir ~/mail2
touch ~/mail/tbird
cd ~/mail2
ln -s ../mail/tbird
cd -

Next I saved an Alpine message in my Alpine tbird folder.  Then I opened 
Thunderbird.  It was set to use ~/mail (probably because I had used it 
previously), so immediately after opening, I clicked on "View Settings for 
Account" and changed the path from /whatever/mail /whatever/mail2 and 
exited Thunderbird.  Because it was looking in ~/mail/ it created a bunch 
of files there and I deleted them like so:

rm ~/mail/*.msf ~/mail/Inbox

(The "Inbox" file was zero bytes and not the "inbox" file Aline uses.)

Then I opened Thunderbird again.  This time it showed "Local folders" on 
the left from the ~/mail2/ directory and "tbird" was one of them.  I 
opened it and there was my message.

So now when I get a message with html where the embedded graphics are 
attached to the message, I save a copy in my tbird folder in Alpine, then 
open Thunderbird to view the message.

I added a few more symlinks to ~/mail/ from ~/mail2/ and looked at other 
Alpine mail folders from Thunderbird.  It left all the .msf junk in the 
~/mail2/ folder and didn't change files in ~/mail/ so doing things that 
way makes Thunderbird a fairly convenient reader for those rare occasions 
where Alpine isn't quite up to the job.

Mike