On Wednesday 06 May 2015 12:23:58 Lisi Reisz wrote: Sorry, should ahve included the URL. http://bugs.pearsoncomputing.net/show_bug.cgi?id=2440 Lisi

On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 12:23:58PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: 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? 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. 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? 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. -- Steve

This is one way to convert an HTML-only email to a text-only email. It is a last resort for when no safer and easier solution can be found. WARNING: Converting HTML to text is error prone. You may lose the content of the email. If the email is at all important COPY it to another mail folder and then try the conversion on that copy. NOTE: These instructions assume you have not previously used any mail filters. If you have already used mail filters it's up to you to figure out how to create a new mail filter instead of following these instructions. These instructions convert the default "<unknown>" no-op mail filter to an UnHTML filter. 1. Settings / Configure Filters. 2. At left rename <unknown> to UnHTML. 3. In General tab select filter action "Pipe Through". 4. Copy/paste the following in the white box all on one line. perl -e '$h=1;while(<>){print;if($h&&$_ eq "\n"){$h=0;open(STDOUT,"| lynx -stdin -dump")}}close(STDOUT);' 5. In Advanced tab uncheck all, except check only "Add this filter to the Apply Filter menu" and "Additionally add this filter to the toolbar". 6. OK You should now have a blue gear wheel in your toolbar and the tooltip for it should say "Filter UnHTML". Select the message you want to convert (or for safety a copy of it) and click the blue gear wheel. The message should disappear and then reappear without HTML a few seconds later. WARNING: If you lose information it's your fault for not making enough backups. Good luck! --Mike