[PLUG] mutt (or other text mail reader), html, and w3m

Paul Heinlein heinlein at madboa.com
Tue Jun 19 18:22:29 UTC 2007


On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Rich Shepard wrote:

> On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
>
>>  OK, I am one of those ancient fossils who hates html email, which
>>  is the spawn of Satan and his evil minions.
>
>  I, too, am an older curmudgeon. I have pine set to translate html 
> messages to plain ASCII text. Most of the time it Just Works; when 
> it doesn't, I get the usualy mess of tags and text and usually 
> ignore it all by pressing the 'd' key.

A slightly less-old curmudgeon :-), I use alpine -- which is, in 
effect, Pine 5.0 with a much less restrictive license (the Apache 
license, to be exact). It uses libxml2 to handle HTML, and does so 
semi-well: text formatting and links decently, tables not so well.

For me, the big selling point in moving from Pine to Alpine is Unicode 
support. I want to read my spam in the original 
Chinese/Hebrew/Russian, thank you very much! Still no integrated GPG 
support, though, which is a fairly major bummer.

-- 
Paul Heinlein <> heinlein at madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/



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