Gnus -- remove inline HTML images

Gnus -- remove inline HTML images

[Phillip Lord]

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?

Phil

Re: Gnus -- remove inline HTML images

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

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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(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no

Re: Gnus -- remove inline HTML images

[Pankaj Jangid]

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.
This is great information. One more query, just to complete this thread
- how to come back to read-only mode after editing?

-- 
Pankaj Jangid

Re: Gnus -- remove inline HTML images

[Robert Pluim]

>>>>> 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

Re: Gnus -- remove inline HTML images

[Pankaj Jangid]

Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:
>>>>>> 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.

Thanks. C-c C-c is shown in the echo area. Actually, I looked up
quickhelp C-h m without entering into Article-Edit mode. That is why I
missed it there.

-- 
Pankaj Jangid

Re: Gnus -- remove inline HTML images

[Phillip Lord]

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.

Okay, that's a way to do it, albeit rather clunky.

I guess you would have no objection to adding a new washing method or
something equivalent that would remove all of these?

Phil

Re: Gnus -- remove inline HTML images

[Robert Pluim]

>>>>> On Mon, 18 Nov 2019 15:34:49 +0000, Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@russet.org.uk> said:

    Phillip> 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.

    Phillip> Okay, that's a way to do it, albeit rather clunky.

    Phillip> I guess you would have no objection to adding a new washing method or
    Phillip> something equivalent that would remove all of these?

You can probably use gnus-article-remove-images (bound to W-D-D) for
inspiration.

Robert

Re: Gnus -- remove inline HTML images

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@russet.org.uk> writes:

> Okay, that's a way to do it, albeit rather clunky.

It'd be easy enough to write a command on top of `e' that just does `e',
search/replace, `C-c C-c'.

> I guess you would have no objection to adding a new washing method or
> something equivalent that would remove all of these?

Washing methods are for display only -- they don't alter the mails
themselves, which I thought was the point here.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no

Re: Gnus -- remove inline HTML images

[Robert Pluim]

>>>>> On Tue, 19 Nov 2019 10:17:59 +0100, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <lmi@gnus.org> said:

    Lars> Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@russet.org.uk> writes:
    >> Okay, that's a way to do it, albeit rather clunky.

    Lars> It'd be easy enough to write a command on top of `e' that just does `e',
    Lars> search/replace, `C-c C-c'.

    >> I guess you would have no objection to adding a new washing method or
    >> something equivalent that would remove all of these?

    Lars> Washing methods are for display only -- they don't alter the mails
    Lars> themselves, which I thought was the point here.

How about a 'wash-edit-mode', where all subsequent wash commands
actually change the article until you exit 'wash-edit-mode' ?

Robert