From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/56909 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jonas Steverud Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: HTML emails and recommended solution? Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2004 10:52:13 +0200 Organization: The Deciples of Albericht Nibelungen Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1081068749 18514 80.91.224.253 (4 Apr 2004 08:52:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2004 08:52:29 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M5448@lists.math.uh.edu Sun Apr 04 10:52:24 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BA3Md-0005m5-00 for ; Sun, 04 Apr 2004 10:52:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1BA3MT-0005FX-00; Sun, 04 Apr 2004 03:52:13 -0500 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1BA3MM-0005FR-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 04 Apr 2004 03:52:06 -0500 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BA3MM-0002JU-13 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 04 Apr 2004 03:52:06 -0500 Original-Received: from mxfep01.bredband.com (mxfep01.bredband.com [195.54.107.70]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFCD43A01F2 for ; Sun, 4 Apr 2004 03:52:04 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from c-a85372d5.036-4-67626721.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se.bredband.net ([213.114.83.191] [213.114.83.191]) by mxfep01.bredband.com with ESMTP id <20040404085204.YAE12989.mxfep01.bredband.com@c-a85372d5.036-4-67626721.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se.bredband.net> for ; Sun, 4 Apr 2004 10:52:04 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.110001 (No Gnus v0.1) Emacs/21.3 (darwin) X-Spam-Score: -4.8 (----) Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:56909 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:56909 The plague of HTML in emails doesn't seems to vanish, hardly surprising to anyone, and so far I've had (setq mm-discouraged-alternatives (remove "text/html" mm-discouraged-alternatives)) (add-to-list 'mm-inline-media-tests '("text/html" nil (lambda (h) nil))) (add-to-list 'mm-discouraged-alternatives "text/html") (add-to-list 'mm-discouraged-alternatives "text/richtext") (add-to-list 'mm-discouraged-alternatives "text/enriched") (setq mm-automatic-display (remove "text/html" mm-automatic-display) mm-automatic-display (remove "text/richtext" mm-automatic-display) mm-automatic-display (remove "text/enriched" mm-automatic-display)) To reduce the damages, but I've decided that I maybe should try to see if some new approach has come up since I added those lines (which was quite some years ago). So, my question now is how you would recommend me to handle HTML emails? In 99.9999% of the cases, the HTML is just there for no other reason then the programmer and the user are morons and it doesn't add anything to the message. I.e. it could be stripped on sight. I have W3 installed and I can find it acceptable to have it render the emails. I would like to see the text portion if it is available, otherwise it should be sent to W3 for rendering automatically. What I'm afraid of is that the email contains ads that W3 then have to download (i.e. images) and in spams this is a common approach to validate working addresses. If it is spam I don't want W3 to do anything and in case of ads in ordinary emails (usually Yahoogroups or emails sent form MSN et al) I don't want W3 to download anything either since I don't want to see the ads. Any takes on how Gnus and W3 should be configured to handle this? GNU Emacs 21.3.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin, X toolkit) No Gnus v0.1 -- ( http://hem.bredband.net/steverud/ ! Wei Wu Wei ) ( Meaning of U2 Lyrics, Roleplaying ! To Do Without Do )