Re: htmlified mail

[Bill White <billw@wolfram.com>]

On Wed Jan 24 2001 at 03:15, Joakim Hove <Joakim.Hove@phys.ntnu.no> said:

    jh> I quite often get htmlized mail were people have underlined or
    jh> marked up text with bold or italic. These mails are generally
    jh> quite horrible to read. However most of the markup
    jh> (underline/bold/italic) can be simply reproduced in a normal
    jh> emacs buffer without resorting to w3 (or any other
    jh> browser). Is there a way I can do a simple washing of
    jh> text/html messages.

I'm seeing a lot of this crap nowadays.  Is this MS Lookout! output?
Sometimes I use html2text - with the article displayed, type `|' in
the Summary buffer and tell it to run a script.

It loses all formatting elsewhere in the message (any lynx
gurus/manpage readers out there?) but sometimes it's worthwhile.

,----[ ~/html2text ]
| #! /usr/local/bin/perl
| 
| $^W = 1;
| use strict;
| use POSIX   ();
| use Fcntl;
| 
| my $tmp = POSIX::tmpnam();
| while( ! sysopen(F, $tmp, O_WRONLY|O_EXCL|O_CREAT, 0600) ) {
|     die "Attempt to open $tmp failed: $!"
|         unless $! =~ "File exists";
|     $tmp = POSIX::tmpnam();
| }
| 
| while(<>) {
|     print F;
| }
| 
| close(F)
|     or die "Close of $tmp failed: $!";
| 
| !system(qw(lynx -dump -force_html), $tmp)
|     or die "System failed: $!";
| 
| END {
|     unlink $tmp if -f $tmp;
| }
`----

Hm. I guess it could be simplified, but oh well. Dunno where I got it.

Cheers -

bw
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