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D. Goel <deego@glue.umd.edu> writes:

> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm getting html mail quite often now and it's getting annoying.
> > Does anyone has a gnus filter to filter out the html tags and
> > leave the plain text behind?
> 
> 
> this shows you the lynxed mail.. this got into my .gnus from an
> earlier post in g.e.gnus --->
> 
> 
> ;; function to call to handle text/html attachments
> (defun my:gnus-html2text (handle)
>   (let (text)
>     (with-temp-buffer
>       (mm-insert-part handle)
>       (save-window-excursion
>   	(my:html2text-region (point-min) (point-max))
>   	(setq text (buffer-string))))
>     (mm-insert-inline handle text)))
> 
> (defun my:html2text-region (min max)
>   "Replace the HTML region from MIN to MAX with lynx --dump."
>   (interactive "r")
>   (let ((file "~/tmp/email.html"))
>     (unwind-protect
>         (progn
>           (write-region min max file)
>           (delete-region min max)
>           (insert (shell-command-to-string
>                    (concat "lynx "
>                            "lynx -dump "
>                            (shell-quote-argument
>                             (expand-file-name file))))))
>       ;;(delete-file file)
>       )))

Hi,

This approach seems to best fit my need.  How do you hook
my:gnus-html2text into gnus so that it is run automatically on
html mail?

Thanks.

-kin