Re: Gnus -- remove inline HTML images

[Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>]

>>>>> 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