From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 25 20:25:17 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA24455 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:25:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA24447 for ; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:25:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id OAA04386; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 14:55:09 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.2/8.9.0) id OAA93262; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 14:55:08 +1030 (CST) Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 14:55:08 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: "Larry S. Marso" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: HTML mail (was: Polite Advocacy on -questions WAS: learning UNIX) Message-ID: <19990126145508.H66239@freebie.lemis.com> References: <19990125225933.C6464@marso.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <19990125225933.C6464@marso.com>; from Larry S. Marso on Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 10:59:33PM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday, 25 January 1999 at 22:59:33 -0500, Larry S. Marso wrote: > On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 09:56:27PM +0000, Jason C. Wells wrote: >>> First thing you need to learn about UNIX, HTML is NOT a valid way >>> to send E-mail. Other then that, jump right in. > > Thinking about this, I wonder ... > > Why not write a procmail script that pipes html e-mail to: > > netscape -remote 'openURL('$1',new-window)' Well, off the top of my head, 1. This requires procmail. Not everybody wants to install procmail. 2. It means that you're interrupted by the message when it arrives rather than when you want to look at it. 3. It could be an incredible resource hog. What happens if 40 such messages arrive in the course of a night? You could run out of swap before the morning. 4. How do you reply? There's no good reason to send HTML mail. Most people do it out of ignorance, because their software is set up to do it. I *can* read HTML mail with mutt, but in every time I've done so, it was almost illegible. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message