Re: View HTML Mail in Browser

[Felix Natter <fnatter@gmx.net>]

Adam Sjøgren <asjo@koldfront.dk> writes:

> Felix writes:
>
>>> How about K H (gnus-article-browse-html-article)?
>
>> --------
>> View "text/html" parts of the current article with a WWW browser.
>> Inline images embedded in a message using the cid scheme, as they are
>> generally considered to be safe, will be processed properly.
>> The message header is added to the beginning of every html part unless
>> the prefix argument ARG is given.
>>
>> If you always want to display HTML parts in the browser, set
>> ‘mm-text-html-renderer’ to nil.
>> --------
>>
>> Setting (setq mm-text-html-renderer nil) works, but it will open *all*
>> mails in the browser.
>>
>> So I tried with a local variable:
>
> ...
>
>> Next I tried:
>
> ...
>
>> Finally I tried to create a new thread to get around the blocking
>> problem:

hello Adam,

> What is problem are you trying to solve?

I would like to open mails using w3m by default,
and if I hit K H I would like to open it in the browser:

(setq mm-text-html-renderer 'w3m
      w3m-coding-system 'utf-8
      w3m-file-coding-system 'utf-8
      w3m-file-name-coding-system 'utf-8
      w3m-input-coding-system 'utf-8
      w3m-output-coding-system 'utf-8
      w3m-terminal-coding-system 'utf-8
      w3m-toggle-inline-images t 
      w3m-default-display-inline-images t)

> If an email doesn't render well enough in Gnus, I press the keys K H and
> this one email is displayed in Firefox instead.
>
> It sounds like you don't want _all_ emails to open in the browser - so
> doesn't pressing K H on just the ones you want to see in the browser
> work?

There must be some configuration that prevents this for me: If I have:

(setq mm-text-html-renderer nil)

Then whenever I open an (html) mail, it is automatically opened in the
browser. I could not find any other relevant setting in ~/.gnus.el and
~/.emacs.el.

Emacs version: GNU Emacs 26.3 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+
      Version 3.24.5) I built this myself due to an issue with 26.1
      in Debian buster.
Gnus version: Gnus v5.13

Shall I update to Emacs 27.1? Would there be any Gnus compatibility
issues that I need to watch out for?

Thanks and Best Regards,
-- 
Felix Natter