Re: Email issues

On 2023-01-23 12:10:40+0000, Polarian <polarian@polarian.dev> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> > I can not speak for Thunderbird, but at least Mutt [1] allows you to easily change settings based on the content of To, Cc, etc. If your e-mail client of choice does not give you this option, perhaps consider a different client or using different clients for different purposes?
>
> I have used mutt before, unfortunately it does not support multiple inboxes
> very well, and also most people use HTML emails these days (even though I
> don't this does not mean others will not), thus mutt is no longer a decent
> option which is unfortunate as it is a nice TUI.

For what it may be worth, you can set up mutt to run html-only
emails through the "links" (or other) application for some formatting for basic
readability, such as when a message is highlighted in the mutt attachment
list, and pressing A.

To do so, put these 2 lines in my ~/mail/config/macros file (location depending on
where you save your mutt files):
#(Same as if typing |ht to run thru the ht script, to view html/web content.)
macro index,pager,attach A "<pipe-entry>ht<Enter>" "view html as txt"

... and then the below script which I called "ht" short for
html-readability, in the path. If you rename it you have to change the
"ht" part in the macro line above. You can separately also pass it a
filename to remember or type less: ht somefile.html .

#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -eu #x
# purpose: convert html doc to plain text, with links program.
if [[ $# -gt 0 ]]; then
links -dump "$*"|less
else
#IFS= read var << EOF
# echo $var
#EOF
TMP=$(mktemp -t ulb-ht-script_XXXXXX)
while read line || [ -n "$line" ]; do
echo "$line" >> "$TMP"
done
links -dump "$TMP"|less
fi

...and of course as root, pkg_add links .

I still sometimes have to look at the raw html to pull out a link or
something, but not very often.

Luke Call