Re: HTML Emails

[Reiner Steib]

On Thu, Oct 18 2007, Randy Yates wrote:

> Randy Yates <yates@ieee.org> writes:
>
>> I mostly love the way gnus allows me to use xemacs to read and respond
>> to usenet articles and email messages, but I hate the way it currently
>> handles HTML emails. They are currently interpreted by xemacs internally
>> (I think by w3) and it does a horrible job. 
>>
>> Can someone suggest a way to spawn Firefox to read html messages, 

Only in the development version (`gnus-article-browse-html-article' is
on K H, <menu-bar> <Article> <MIME> <Multipart> <View HTML parts in
browser>):

,----[ <f1> f gnus-article-browse-html-article RET ]
| gnus-article-browse-html-article is an interactive compiled Lisp
| function in `gnus-art.el'.
| (gnus-article-browse-html-article)
| 
| View "text/html" parts of the current article with a WWW browser.
| 
| Warning: Spammers use links to images in HTML articles to verify
| whether you have read the message.  As
| `gnus-article-browse-html-article' passes the unmodified HTML
| content to the browser without eliminating these "web bugs" you
| should only use it for mails from trusted senders.
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>> or can they otherwise suggest a better, more up-to-date method for
>> handling html?

Most people like `w3m' (emacs-w3m)...

,----[ (info "(emacs-mime)Display Customization") ]
| `mm-text-html-renderer'
|      This selects the function used to render HTML.  The predefined
|      renderers are selected by the symbols `w3', `w3m'(1), `links',
|      `lynx', `w3m-standalone' or `html2text'.  If `nil' use an external
|      viewer.  You can also specify a function, which will be called
|      with a MIME handle as the argument.
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> "Gnus v5.10.7" "XEmacs 21.4 (patch 20) \"Double Solitaire\" [Lucid]
> (x86_64-unknown-linux, Mule)

Please upgrade to Gnus 5.10.8 available from the XEmacs packages tree.

Bye, Reiner.
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