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Re: Forwarding HTML mail as text



On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 09:22:48AM -0600, Ben Livingood wrote:
> Hi Chris,
> 
> * Chris Green (chris@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote thusly unto the masses:
> > Is there any way to get mutt to forward HTML mail as text?
> 
> Yep!
> 
> > I have mutt set up to use lynx to view HTML mail but if I forward an
> > HTML mail message it's forwarded as HTML within the body of the
> > forwarded message and I suspect that the recipients won't like that
> > very much!
> 
> This is my mailcap setting and it seems to work, as the message is put
> in-line:
> 
> text/html; lynx -nolist -force_html -dump %s; copiousoutput
> 
> I can attest that this works for those folks that use the hotmail mail
> that comes in html only. 
> 
Thanks for replying, however....

My mailcap has:-

    text/html; lynx -nocolor -cfg /usr/chris/lib/lynx.cfg -underscore 
-force_html -dump %s; copiousoutput


When I forward a message that appears to me as:-

    [-- Autoview using lynx -nocolor -cfg /usr/chris/lib/lynx.cfg -underscore
    -force_html -dump '/proj/chris/tmp/muttiqaOPk' --]

       Chris,


       I have found two errors in MAR.  One of them is very close to the one
    [snip rest of message]


It gets forwarded as (i.e. what loads into my editor to add to as required):-

    ----- Forwarded message from Robert Standley <robert.standley@xxxxxxxxx> 
-----

    Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1])
            by borg.GEMS (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA02549
            for <chris@localhost>; Wed, 2 Jun 2004 20:01:51 +0100 (BST)
    Received: from localhost [127.0.0.1]
            by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-6.2.2)
            for chris@localhost (single-drop); Wed, 02 Jun 2004 20:01:51 +0100 
(BST)
    Received: from localhost (cgreen@localhost [127.0.0.1])
            by shell.x-1.net (8.9.3p2/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21) with ESMTP id 
UAA11630
            for <home@localhost>; Wed, 2 Jun 2004 20:00:08 +0100
    X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6487.1
    Received: from pop3.hostedservices.co.uk [217.28.130.40]
            by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-6.1.1)
            for home@localhost (single-drop); Wed, 02 Jun 2004 20:00:08 +0100 
(BST)
    Received: by THEXCHBEX.services.byworkwise.com
            id <01C448D3.26BF3602@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Wed, 2 
Jun 20>
    MIME-Version: 1.0
    Content-Type: text/html;
            charset="us-ascii"
    Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
    content-class: urn:content-classes:message
    Subject: FR29824
    Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 19:55:19 +0100
    Message-ID:
    <AB53824C52EFE7428BF0C029A920C3AA05282CB1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    Thread-Topic: FR29824
    Thread-Index: AcRI03G8Li51Ej0ITMa5+MeRip7Zdg==
    From: Robert Standley <robert.standley@xxxxxxxxx>
    To: Chris Green <chris.green@xxxxxxxxx>
    Cc: Robert Standley <robert.standley@xxxxxxxxx>
    Status: RO
    X-Status: A
    Content-Length: 5534
    Lines: 119

    <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
    <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Message</TITLE>
    <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; =
    charset=3Dus-ascii">
    <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2800.1276" name=3DGENERATOR></HEAD>
    <BODY>
    <DIV><SPAN class=3D203484618-02062004><FONT face=3D"Comic Sans MS"=20
    color=3D#0000ff>Chris,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
    <DIV><SPAN class=3D203484618-02062004><FONT face=3D"Comic Sans MS"=20
    <DIV><SPAN class=3D203484618-02062004><FONT face=3D"Comic Sans
    MS"=20
    color=3D#0000ff></FONT></SPAN>&nbsp;</DIV>
    <DIV><SPAN class=3D203484618-02062004><FONT face=3D"Comic Sans MS" =
    color=3D#0000ff>I=20
    have found two errors in MAR.&nbsp; One of them is very close to the one =


That looks pretty much like HTML to me inside the forwarded message,
how can I convert it to text?

-- 
Chris Green (chris@xxxxxxxxxxx)