Re: Gnus -- remove inline HTML images

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <lmi@gnus.org>]

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.

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