[Alpine-info] Re: display of html content

[Lucio Chiappetti]

On Sat, 12 Nov 2011, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:


>> Not quite.  If an email message is HTML, then there is an HTML 

>> attachment.



> prefer plain text emails, I also have a strong aversion to any graphical 

> email program I've ever tried.


I do hate HTML e-mail, particularly when the same text is repeated in 
plain text and html, and I devised a procmail arrangement to get rid of it
(http://sax.iasf-milano.inaf.it/~lucio/Procmail/noquotenohtml.html).

However this arrangement, while putting an edited copy of the message in 
my inbox, files the original message in a temporary folder where I have a 
week of time to look at it.

In the few cases I really need to look at the HTML (a couple of 
newsletters which send a text/plain line with an URL, and a text/html with 
the real stuff) I follow the suggestion below:

Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik wrote:


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


In my case, combined with the .pinerc entries below, this displays the 
html into a new tab of my running firefox (it should be intended to start 
one if one is not running too).

URL-Viewers  = _TEST("firefox -remote('ping()')") firefox
                _TEST("test -n '${DISPLAY}'") firefox _URL

I'm lucky enough that the html I received are proper html pages where the 
images are loaded from remote resources. I've never encountered one with 
references to other attachments.

Attachment index command in pine is however a great way also to navigate 
all sort of other *sensible* attachment like pdf docs, ps figures, png or 
jpg images, even word and excel documents, and call the appropriate 
viewer.