Re: Claws-mail and HTML

[Matthew Mondor <mm_lists%pulsar-zone.net@localhost>]

On Wed, 7 May 2014 13:36:34 +0200
Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost> wrote:

> On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 04:18:12AM -0400, Matthew Mondor wrote:
> > I noticed that neither claws-mail-dillo-viewer nor
> > claws-mail-gtkhtml-viewer exist anymore.  Is there now another
> > alternative to view HTML mail using Claws-mail?
> 
> Looking at
> http://www.claws-mail.org/plugins.php
> you probably want the Fancy plugin.
> 
> A package of that name even exists in wip:
> wip/claws-mail-fancy
> 
> (no guarantees, I haven't even looked at it nor tried it)

Thanks.

I actually just discovered this, unfortunately: the dillo_viewer plugin
was part of the claws-mail source, with the pkgsrc stub simply enabling
its compilation; and on the site there seems to only be Fancy at the
moment (which is indeed also part of the claws-mail source).

This means that to retrieve the dillo_viewer plugin I'd have to patch
the source tree.  As for the Fancy plugin, I might test it, but I doubt
that it's what I want, it's hardly lightweight, the last time I tried
webkit on NetBSD it crashed a lot, and it supports scripts, which I'd
not want in email (possibly the plugin mitigates this with custom
filters, I'd have to check, dillo was nice on the security aspect,
light, and launched using the --local option).

It seems that it's upstream that I'd have to convince to restore it,
unless I maintained custom patches.
-- 
Matt