Re: Forwarding HTML mail as text
On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 09:58:52AM -0600, Ben Livingood wrote:
> Hi Chris,
> * Chris Green (chris@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote thusly unto the masses:
> > On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 09:22:48AM -0600, Ben Livingood wrote:
> > Thanks for replying, however....
>
> No problem,
>
> > My mailcap has:-
> >
> > text/html; lynx -nocolor -cfg /usr/chris/lib/lynx.cfg -underscore
> > -force_html -dump %s; copiousoutput
>
> Interesting. . .
>
> > When I forward a message that appears to me as:-
> <snip>
> > That looks pretty much like HTML to me inside the forwarded message,
> > how can I convert it to text?
>
> Have you looked at forward_decode and mime_forward_decode? They
> purport to control the decoding of complex MIME into text/plain when
> forwarding.
>
> I have the following in my .muttrc and a forward of the aforementioned
> html only hotmail mail converts successfully and cleanly.
>
> set forward_decode # decode messages when forwarding without MIME
> unset mime_forward_decode # decode messages when forwarding with MIME
>
Ah, that sounds rather relevant doesn't it, thanks. I'll try it out
when I get back to work tomorrow.
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Chris Green (chris@xxxxxxxxxxx)