Re: Gnus -- remove inline HTML images

[Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>]

>>>>> On Tue, 12 Nov 2019 12:53:08 +0530, Pankaj Jangid <p4j@j4d.net> said:

    Pankaj> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <lmi@gnus.org> writes:
    >> Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@russet.org.uk> writes:
    >>> I would like to be able to delete inline HTML images in Gnus. People
    >>> keep on sending me pointless images, and it's breaking my long habit of
    >>> "inbox infinite". With mime attachments, I just ditch the big ones, but
    >>> I cannot do this with inline images in HTML.
    >>> I guess that most of these images are "cid", although I don't know
    >>> enough about email to know if there are other methods widely used.
    >>> Is there any mechanism in Gnus for achieving this?
    >> If you hit `e', you can edit the message.  The embedded images will
    >> appear as mml tags, like
    >> <\#part type=image/png name="mailphoto.png" id="<mailphoto.png>" buffer=" *mml*-862362">
    >> <\#/part>
    >> and you can just delete those.
    Pankaj> This is great information. One more query, just to complete this thread
    Pankaj> - how to come back to read-only mode after editing?

"C-c C-c", which is shown in the echo area when you start editing the
message. And probably "C-c C-k" to abort the edits, but I haven't
checked. "C-h m" when youʼre editing should tell you.

Robert