From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by arlo.cworth.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DEC36DE02B7 for ; Sat, 25 Jun 2016 02:59:24 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at cworth.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -0.011 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.011 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[AWL=-0.000, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01] autolearn=disabled Received: from arlo.cworth.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (arlo.cworth.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id AtIsfaAc5QyB for ; Sat, 25 Jun 2016 02:59:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fethera.tethera.net (fethera.tethera.net [198.245.60.197]) by arlo.cworth.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 020E26DE0217 for ; Sat, 25 Jun 2016 02:59:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from remotemail by fethera.tethera.net with local (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1bGkMK-0005Ry-T4; Sat, 25 Jun 2016 05:58:40 -0400 Received: (nullmailer pid 8212 invoked by uid 1000); Sat, 25 Jun 2016 09:58:53 -0000 From: David Bremner To: Bart Bunting , notmuch@notmuchmail.org Subject: Re: Converting attachments to text or html In-Reply-To: References: User-Agent: Notmuch/0.22+51~gcc1a6d2 (https://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/24.5.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2016 11:58:53 +0200 Message-ID: <87vb0xy4gy.fsf@maritornes.cs.unb.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2016 09:59:24 -0000 Bart Bunting writes: > Hi everyone, > > I often receive email with word or pdf attachments. > > I'm blind and use emacspeak on a mac. Whilst it is possible to save the > attachment, use unoconv or similar to convert to text or html the > process is tedious as it means leaving notmuch and executing several commands. > > Is there any functionality in notmuch where I can have it preprocess > attachments of a given mime type or filename regexp or similar pass to > an external command and display the resulting text. > > I'd be happy if either the entire part was replaced with the text or an > additional part added or anything at all really that made it unnecessary > to leave notmuch to view the content of the attachment. > > Does anyone have suggestions? > Hi Bart; Something like you want should be possible, but it might require a bit of elisp programming. One thing that you can do now is use the '.' key on a part button to get some options to deal with the attachment from within notmuch. '. ?' should give you a popup text window with the options. I guess something like making a script and invoking it with '. o' should work. I hope this helps, David