Re: HTML Emails

[Randy Yates <yates@ieee.org>]

Randy Yates <yates@ieee.org> writes:

> Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> writes:
>
>> slack-rat <gnus@azurservers.com> writes:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>> in .gnus, this works for me:
>>>
>>> ;; Show the text/plain part of a multipart
>>> (setq mm-discouraged-alternatives
>>>       '("text/html"
>>> 	"text/richtext"))
>>
>> This will only preventy you from seeing the html part if a plain text
>> part is present in multipart messages.
>>
>>> ;; I would like gnus to always use Netscape/mozilla/etc 
>>> (setq browse-url-browser-function 'browse-url-firefox)
>>
>> And this affects only which browser to use when hitting RET on a link.
>>
>> I use emacs-w3m [1] to render html mails inside emacs.
>>
>> (setq mm-text-html-renderer 'w3m)
>> (setq mm-inline-text-html-with-images t)
>> (setq mm-inline-large-images t)
>
> Hi Tasilo,

Sorry, that should be "Tassilo."

> I appreciate your response and the information you provided, but
> I don't want to use w3m. I want to use firefox. This is because
> (correct me if I'm wrong) firefox is more likely to have a more
> complete implementation of html in all of its complexities than
> w3m. 
>
> I tried substituting "firefox" for "w3m" but that didn't work. It
> also seems there are many "sub-options" for the html rendering and
> the entire mechanism is very confusing to me because I haven't seen
> a document that ties all of these together from a top-level operational
> point-of-view. 
>
> Any further information would be appreciated.

What I really would like to do is is bit more involved. While I'm
not a total stranger to lisp, my lisp programming skills are weak
(and my familiarity with xemacs/gnus lisp programming isn't all
that great either), so any leads/programming examples would be
appreciated.

What I'd like to do is, when I'm in the summary buffer, have the 
body of all HTML messages suppressed - only the sender, subject,
etc. (i.e., the header) should be displayed. Then if I decide
it's from a trusted source, I'll invoke a key sequence to spawn
firefox to read the message.

How to do?

PS: When I substituted "firefox" for "w3m" I get

  Wrong type argument: listp, firefox

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