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Re: Using web browser mail agent as nmh message viewer

2002-07-27 18:23:33
On July 27, 2002 at 11:16, Neil W Rickert wrote:

            But, these days, I get so much MIME mail with
attachments... and nmh's MIME handling is so far from what I
need... that I've been using the Mozilla mail agent to make the
first cut at reading my mail, weeding out spam, etc... then
using a script to pull the messages I want to keep from my
Mozilla inbox into my nmh inbox, where I file them.  Until now.

Interesting.

I'm doing the reverse.

I get so much MIME mail, and so much of that MIME mail is spam,
that my first pass is with command line tools, before I try
using exmh for rendering the mime.

I have the following bash function for dumping a message to
Galeon:

  sh.web() {
    /bin/rm -rf $HOME/tmp/webmail
    /bin/mkdir -p $HOME/tmp/webmail
    (cd $HOME/tmp/webmail && \
        show -noshowproc -noheader $* | mhonarc -single > index.html
     galeon -n file://$HOME/tmp/webmail/index.html)
  }

mhonarc converts the message into HTML (including the handling of
attachments).  I'm sure the above could be modified for other browsers.
For example, for netscape/mozilla, you can run something like the
following to load the HTML file:

  mozilla -raise -remote 'openFile($HOME/tmp/webmail/index.html)'

This requires an existing running instance of mozilla.  If you
want to be fancy, you could check to see that mozilla is running
and adjust the command accordingly.

--ewh


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