On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 12:23:58PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> Yesterday I filed a wish-bug.  I am very conscious of what is involved and of 
> how precious the developer effort and time is.  The person who told me to ask 
> said that it would be quick and easy, but quick and easy are both very 
> subjective words.

Here is the bug report again:

http://bugs.pearsoncomputing.net/show_bug.cgi?id=2440

Unfortunately, for some reason I can't view the screen shot, but I think 
I know what you are referring to.

I think you mean that Kmail displays HTML emails as raw HTML code, like 
the "View Source" in a web browser, full of < > tags and other 
formatting information. Is that what you mean?

I must say I've never noticed that when I was using Kmail, but I'm 
currently using mutt almost exclusively.

It might be helpful to mention how mutt deals with HTML mail. Of course, 
being mutt, nearly everything is configurable, but this is how I have it 
set up: when an email contains both a plain text version of the message 
and a html version of the message, mutt will display the plain text version.

But if the email only has a html version, mutt calls out to the "links" 
text-based web browser, and gets it to dump the html message to a plain 
text version. links knows how to extract the message content, ignoring 
irrelevant tags and formatting information. "lynx" is another text-only 
browser capable of a similar html-to-text dump. In either case, all you 
see is the plain text, with no <tags>.

Is that what you are after?


My own feeling is that any graphical email client should show the plain 
text message (when available), and if not available, you should have a 
choice between showing the html message either formatted and rendered in 
all it's glory (or horror), or as plain text with the formatting 
removed.



-- 
Steve