From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 26 07:42:09 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA20619 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 07:42:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from horst.bfd.com (horst.bfd.com [12.9.219.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA20613 for ; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 07:42:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ejs@bfd.com) Received: from HARLIE.bfd.com (bastion.bfd.com [12.9.219.14]) by horst.bfd.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id HAA03804; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 07:41:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ejs@bfd.com) Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 07:41:59 -0800 (PST) From: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" To: "Larry S. Marso" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Polite Advocacy on -questions WAS: learning UNIX In-Reply-To: <19990125225933.C6464@marso.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, 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)' That would be very messy when I'm reading office email at home or home email in the office, especially since procmail gets invoked when the message is delivered, not when read. Now, with a recent enough pine, any message that has the correct MIME headers will still get displayed, but that rules out any HTML message that is in the digests, or any message from a mailer that didn't supply correct headers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message