On July 29, 2002 at 21:00, Earl Hood wrote:
Jerry's message seems to imply that he wants to see
the hole message in a manner similiar to a GUI client, with images
shown inline and convenient links to attachments (which may have nothing
to do with HTML).
Right.
Once in a while, it would be nice to have a multipart message
shown in one continuous "chunk" when using the command-line
nmh interface (which I always do), but this would probably require
a custom pager.
This is why I chose Mozilla's mail agent: it can take a whole multipart
message and show all of it at once. (Mozilla is also more forgiving of
some poorly-encoded messages that nmh complains about and quits.) I
don't *always* need to see multipart messages in one window, so I have
that "smoz" script for displaying messages in the cases where I need
that behavior. I haven't found an easy way to do that with the nmh
pager, which splits the message into its parts before handing each part
to a viewer.
One other reason I like to use the command-line interface first: a lot
of the messages I get are just spam, and that gets obvious as soon as
nmh shows me the first part. If I *don't* automatically use a whizzy
HTML viewer, I can abort (by typing \^) as soon as I see that I don't
want to read the message; it's quick and simple, and it doesn't allow
web beacons or other spammers' tricks in the message to take effect.
That said, I've learned some interesting stuff from other peoples'
ideas of handling this problem. Thanks, all...
Jerry
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