Re: html mail

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From: Doug McLaren
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:47

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On 2009-02-03, the wharf rat <wrat@panix.com> wrote:

| 	I HATE HTML MAIL MESSAGES!
|
| 	Grrrr.  If Ghu, the great, had meant us to send html email
| we'd all be running IE7.

I'm not a fan either.  However ...

   % grep lynx ~/.mailcap
   text/html; lynx -dump %s | sed 's/^   //' ; copiousoutput; nametemplate=%s.html

Problem largely resolved.  (`mutt' is the rest of the solution.)

-- 
Doug McLaren, dougmc@frenzied.us
"I say consider this day seized!" -Hobbes
"Tomorrow we'll seize the day and throttle it!" -Calvin

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Message-ID: <slrngojl4u.kj3.dougmc+usenet@frenzied.us>

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arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!news-in-01.newsfeed.easynews.com!core-easynews!easynews.com!easynews!en-nntp-07.dc1.easynews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail

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From: Doug McLaren <dougmc+usenet@frenzied.us>
Subject: Re: html mail
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Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:47:10 GMT

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