[mew-int 01111] Re: Handling Incoming HTML attachments

[Eduard Werner]

From: Charles Muller <acmuller at example.com>
Subject: [mew-int 01109] Handling Incoming HTML attachments
Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2002 20:13:25 +0900 (JST)

> I have been able to handle all kinds of incoming attachments with MEW (2.2, on RedHat
> 7.3) without much trouble. But I have been having trouble with HTML
> attachments. When I click on the message with <space> or "." like in the
> below case of message #154:
> 
>   154 M10/09 Charles Muller ** no subject **                                 
 <20021009.045435.74751288.acmuller at example.com> <>
>      2  Text/Html(us-ascii)   
> 
> The HTML attachment appears listed below. If it were an MS-Word, or ZIP
> attachment, or anything else, then when I press the space bar on the
> attachment line, I would receive the following kind of response:
> 
>    To save this part, type 'y'.
>    To insert this part in Message mode, type ','.
>    To execute a specified external command, type 'C-c C-y'. 
>    To display this part as a specified Content-Type:, type 'C-u C-c C-e'.

Actually, that's what I get for html attachments.

> However, with HTML attachments, I don't receive this message. Instead the
> message itself appears in HTML format (I can't see the underlying HTML
> code). So when I save the message using Emacs, it is saved as a plain text
> message, and all the HTML is lost.
> 
> How can I save an HTML attachment as a separate HTML file?

I'm missing something here: An html-file *is* a plain text file. So when you
save it using emacs, just call it something.html and fire up your favourite
browser to view it or configure mew to do it. What happens to the file?

Cheers

Edi