[Novalug] Reading HTML Mail (evolved from pine)

[Brandon Saxe]

I'm looking to actually go backwards from gui e-mail apps to text based. Your renderer sounds really interesting. Can you make it available as stated in your post?

Thanks,
  Brandon


--- On Tue, 4/8/08, Clif Flynt <clif at cflynt.com> wrote:

> From: Clif Flynt <clif at cflynt.com>
> Subject: [Novalug] Reading HTML Mail (evolved from pine)
> To: novalug at calypso.tux.org
> Date: Tuesday, April 8, 2008, 9:40 AM
> On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 09:00:12AM -0400, greg pryzby wrote:
> > ...
> > So I will argue that HTML mail is rude, bloated and
> allows phishing
> > because I say one thing and actually send you to a
> different place when
> > you click.
> > 
> > Sure, seeing mail in html is nice, but beware. And
> mutt allowed me to
> > see html mail in a browser if I wanted :P
> 
>   I'm also using mutt, and viewing HTML mail in a
> renderer.  I prefer
> to keep all the mail on my home system, and do a lot of
> mail reading
> via ssh.
>   
>   Being mildly paranoid, I wrote an HTML renderer with no
> capability
> for resolving HREFs or loading images from off-site (to
> avoid the 
> email that uses hits on CGI pages to verify valid
> addresses), and an
> "inspect" mode that highlights the HTML tags and
> HREFs to make it easy
> to determine whether HREFs are pointing where they say.
> 
>   If there's not a better solution out there, and if
> anyone is
> interested, I could wrap the app and make it available.
> 
>   Clif
>   
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