text/html email question

[Janina Sajka]

I've had this working both for HTML messages and for Microsoft Word
files via wvware. I've not succeeded getting it to work on PDF yet, but
I've run into another issue that I have been meaning to ask about on the
list.

The other issue is simply this: I'm getting sick and tired of hearing
all those messages about how the mail is getting converted from whatever
to plain text. And, I'm getting tired of waiting for the conversion.
Usually, this isn't that big of a deal for a message or two, I suppose, but a few seconds
here and a few seconds there add up over a day with a couple hundred
emails in it.

It seems to me it would be really cool to do the conversion before the
mail is dropped into the inbox. I suppose the ideal would be to have
plain text mime'd above the originals, in case there was a need to do
something with the original format.

Has anyone else thought about how to do this? I suppose it would be a
job for procmail, or some such. But one would have to deal with mime,
too.

I suppose I'm not in a place to work on this very much just now, but I
do want to move on it little by little.

Thomas Stivers writes:
> From: Thomas Stivers <stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org>
> 
> On 07/29/03 11:22 PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> > I must have my .mailcap messed up or something.  It works fine with my
> > previous message avout manually doing it but I can't get your
> > suggestion to work.  I keep getting a message saying that the mailcap
> > entry cannot be found.  Does mutt expect its mailcap entries somewhere else?
> 
> In my .mailcap I have the following:
> text/html; html2text '%s'; copiousoutput
> 
> It should also work with lynx (the cat) with the -dump and -force-html
> options. I prefer html2text because I don't want the bracketed numbers
> throughout email. I am not certain that for this purpose copiousoutput
> is necessary, but it works here. Good luck.
> -- 
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> carefully than others.
> Thomas Stivers	e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org	gpg: 45CBBABD
> 
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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina at afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175