From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ken Olum Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: HTML mail in rmail Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 16:21:05 -0400 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1381522883 9868 80.91.229.3 (11 Oct 2013 20:21:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 20:21:23 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 11 22:21:25 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VUjDB-00068n-LD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Oct 2013 22:21:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56194 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VUjDB-0007qI-4t for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Oct 2013 16:21:25 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34355) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VUjD2-0007q7-Kw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Oct 2013 16:21:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VUjCw-0002sD-I2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Oct 2013 16:21:16 -0400 Original-Received: from cosmos.phy.tufts.edu ([130.64.83.16]:39709) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VUjCw-0002rJ-F5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Oct 2013 16:21:10 -0400 Original-Received: from kdo by cosmos.phy.tufts.edu ([local]:local) with local id 1VUjCr-0006AC-6W - Using Exim-4.80.1 (MandrivaLinux) MTA (return-path ); Fri, 11 Oct 2013 16:21:05 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 130.64.83.16 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:164116 Archived-At: What are people doing about HTML mail in the new mime-enabled rmail? A big fraction of mail nowadays is either entirely HTML, or it is multipart/alternative, but the text part just says to see the HTML. In the current world (at least in emacs 23.3, and it looks like the emacs-24 code is the same), if the message is entirely HTML, it just displays the HTML, which is fine if the actual text is legible, but otherwise not much use. In the multipart/alternative case, it shows the useless text/plain part and you can show the HTML if you wish, but it might be illegible. I tried changing rmail-mime-process to treat text/html as bulk, and then I can click "Save" and read it in my browser, but that is not very convenient, especially if I want to be able to move around easily among my messages using rmail commands. The ideal thing from my point of view would be to display the HTML as text. It seems that emacs has plenty of support for such conversions, but rmail seems not to use it. Have I missed some feature? If not, has someone thought about how to implement this? Ken