Re: Rendering HTML Emails

[Jake Colman <colman@ppllc.com>]

>>>>> "TH" == Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> writes:

   TH> Jake Colman <colman@ppllc.com> writes:
   TH> Hi Jake,

   >> 1) If I click on a link, launch a browser to show me the page.  I
   >> configured browse-url to launch firefox.  When I click on a link,
   >> firefox is launched but it only shows me default homepage.

   TH> How did you configure it?  Did you set
   TH> browse-url-browser-function to browse-url-firefox?  If yes, what
   TH> does

   TH>   (browse-url-firefox "http://www.gnus.org") <-- Press C-x C-e here!

   TH> do?  (If it doesn't open firefox at gnus.org, then that's your
   TH> problem.  Beside not being gnus-related I wouldn't know what's
   TH> the solution.)

Very odd.  I can get firefox to launch but it won't honor the URL.  But
if I do the same thing from the Unix command-line it works fine.

Can anyone shed some light on this?

   >> 2) How do I render HTML included in an email. Gnus shows me a mime
   >> button which, when clicked, opens to show me HTML.  How do I get that
   >> rendered?

   TH> I use emacs-w3m [1] to render html email:

   TH>   (setq mm-text-html-renderer 'w3m)
   TH>   (setq mm-inline-text-html-with-images t)
   TH>   (setq mm-inline-large-images t)

   TH> Of course, if you click a link in a article buffer rendered by w3m it
   TH> will be opened with w3m.  But you can fire up your firefox with
   TH> browse-url-at-point and friends.

This worked for me.  Although I used 'w3 instead of 'w3m.  Thanks.

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