[Alpine-info] viewing .html [was: Re:ingesting .msg files]

[D. Hugh Redelmeier via Alpine-info]

> From: Lucio Chiappetti via Alpine-info <alpine-info at u.washington.edu>



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

>> When I receive an HTML message that I am interested in reading, I pass it

>> to a web browser for display.


I have a similar problem: "temporarily" my mail server is remote.  I
SSH into the server to run alpine.


> In order to do that (usually for the newsletters above, I normally do as

> follows.

> 

> - in the message do V (for view attachments)


My muscle memory uses the right arrow key for this.  V is probably better: 
easier to touch type and has fewer meanings in the wrong context.


> - then S to save the html as a file in s specific directory

>   (usually temp/AAAB/temp.html, with Overwrite)


I use "0" as a tempfile name, or 1 if that is busy, etc.  This
convention yields short names that are easy to distinguish from the
names of important files.  In this case I use 0.html in my home
directory.

I have GNOME Files browser running locally, with the remote directory 
available via SFTP.  Then I just double-click on the 0.html in Files and 
the local FireFox takes it from there.

The same method works for other odd attachments like JPEGs and MS
Office files.

Still annoying.

When Alpine was running locally, it could fire up firefox itself.