[Alpine-info] ingesting .msg files

[Eduardo Chappa via Alpine-info]

On Mon, 9 Feb 2026, Hisashi T Fujinaka wrote:


> I used to use demime or something. Nowadays there's so much html 

> nonsense that I'm using other clients when I see things like that. I try 

> to stick to Alpine but yeesh. Good luck Eduardo!


When I receive an HTML message that I am interested in reading, I pass it 
to a web browser for display. In order to do that, I normally do as 
follows:

  * While reading the message, I press "V",
  * then I move to the TEXT/HTML attachment, and
  * I press "X" to open the attachment as an eXternal command.

My url-viewers command is to "$HOME/fire _URL_" (including the quotes), 
and $HOME/fire is a script that eats the stderr output

#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/firefox "$1" &>/dev/null &

(as contributed by an Alpine user)

With that, I can read any html message I want, which for me is the 
exception, not the rule.

-- 
Eduardo