On Wednesday 06 May 2015 13:26:10 Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 12:23:58PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:
Yesterday I filed a wish-bug. I am very conscious of what is involved and of how precious the developer effort and time is. The person who told me to ask said that it would be quick and easy, but quick and easy are both very subjective words.
Here is the bug report again:
http://bugs.pearsoncomputing.net/show_bug.cgi?id=2440
Unfortunately, for some reason I can't view the screen shot, but I think I know what you are referring to.
I think you mean that Kmail displays HTML emails as raw HTML code, like the "View Source" in a web browser, full of < > tags and other formatting information. Is that what you mean?
Yes, that is exactly what I mean.
I must say I've never noticed that when I was using Kmail, but I'm currently using mutt almost exclusively.
It might be helpful to mention how mutt deals with HTML mail. Of course, being mutt, nearly everything is configurable, but this is how I have it set up: when an email contains both a plain text version of the message and a html version of the message, mutt will display the plain text version.
I have KMail set to do that, but even then I sometimes get gobbledy-gook. Here is a short extract from teh _plain_ _text_ part of a multipart email from a local supermarket:
"Morrisonsbody { width: 100%; } /* Outlook link fix */ #outlook a {padding:0;} /* Hotmail background & line height fixes */ .ExternalClass {width:100% !important;} .ExternalClass, .ExternalClass p, .ExternalClass b, .ExternalClass span, .ExternalClass font, .ExternalClass td, .ExternalClass div, .ExternalClass br {line-height: 100%;} /* Image "
But if the email only has a html version, mutt calls out to the "links" text-based web browser, and gets it to dump the html message to a plain text version. links knows how to extract the message content, ignoring irrelevant tags and formatting information. "lynx" is another text-only browser capable of a similar html-to-text dump. In either case, all you see is the plain text, with no <tags>.
Is that what you are after?
YES!!!! I hadn't realised taht it could be done.
My own feeling is that any graphical email client should show the plain text message (when available), and if not available, you should have a choice between showing the html message either formatted and rendered in all it's glory (or horror), or as plain text with the formatting removed.
That would be GREAT!!! That is what I would like for KMail, now I know that it can be done. That exactly is what I am requesting in my wish-bug.
Lisi