Re: [Nmh-workers] message rewrite/fix up

[Lyndon Nerenberg]

On 2013-02-03, at 10:18 AM, David Levine wrote:

> I've been getting text emails with only a text/html
> Content-Type, with no alternative text/plain part.
> Microsoft Exchange and Outlook have settings to do that:
> 
>  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa998896(v=exchg.65).aspx
>  http://support.microsoft.com/kb/323195
> 
> This is so annoying (/rude) that I'm finally going to cobble
> up a utility to rewrite a message.

FWIW, nedmail and friends on Plan9 punt in text/html by piping the part through 
htmlfmt(1).  This turns things into a reasonable text representation, absent 
javascript and obtuse use of frames and tables.  It works surprisingly well for 
most of the HTML-only content I get stuck with.

I don't see why this wouldn't work for nmh.  The overhead is light – no more so 
than invoking less(1).

--lyndon