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I am a 20+ year (al)pine user (without gmail - I host my own mail server) and I have a fairly decent attachment/images/links setup ... First, I use ripmime to

by rsync 10y ago

I am a 20+ year (al)pine user (without gmail - I host my own mail server) and I have a fairly decent attachment/images/links setup ... First, I use ripmime to dump every single attachment to a folder with dated naming - and so if there is an email in pine with an attachment I want to view, I just web browse a simple apache directory listing and click it. It's not sexy, but it's fast and efficient. Second, I have a terminal PDF reader installed on my system and defined in alpine as a helper app for pdf files. So I cannot read word or excel right in alpine but I can read PDF docs. So that's nice and slick. Finally, I never actually click links in alpine, but I defined lynx as a web viewer anyway because that allows me to get the very simple "do you want to view this http link ?" prompt from alpine ... which I always say NO to, but not until I have copied the full URL which they display for me. Then I just open it in a browser. Fairly happy with this setup.

YPCrumble 10y ago
I would love to read a blog post on this setup.
AlexeyBrin 10y ago
It will be great if you could write a blog post about how to reproduce your setup.
_atc 10y ago
Also been using pine/alpine/re-alpine now for 16 years, and also not with gmail. Last I checked their IMAP wasn't fully IMAP. Fastmail FTW
- bsg75 10y ago
  Using v2.20 [1] built from http://repo.or.cz/alpine.git http://repo.or.cz/alpine.git I have Gmail working without much hassle using these docs: https://www.sjwrc.com/guides/alpine-and-gmail/ https://www.sjwrc.com/guides/alpine-and-gmail/ - namely just the IMAP paths. [1] http://patches.freeiz.com/alpine/release/ http://patches.freeiz.com/alpine/release/
superdaniel 10y ago
Not trying to be snarky, but why not use something like Thunderbird (or whatever comes default on the OS of the machine that you're using) that will render out the HTML natively?
- luxpir 10y ago
  If he's anything like me, a fellow mutt user, he cares more about speed and the text itself than pretty columns. It's surprising how little you miss html, particularly when breezing through email at a rate of knots. Plus system resources. So many resources.
  - CaptSpify 10y ago
    Not OP, but... I find the inability to display HTML emails a feature, not a bug.
    - rsync 10y ago
      ding!
semi-extrinsic 10y ago
Depending on what kind of Word documents you get, you might be interested in trying terminal doc(x) to plain text converters. Last I checked they were fairly good for simple things.
l_zzie 10y ago
Do you browse to html files on your attachment server? That's a pretty bad idea security-wise
- rsync 10y ago
  "Do you browse to html files on your attachment server?" No, I don't.

by rsync 10y ago

YPCrumble 10y ago

I would love to read a blog post on this setup.

AlexeyBrin 10y ago

It will be great if you could write a blog post about how to reproduce your setup.

_atc 10y ago

Also been using pine/alpine/re-alpine now for 16 years, and also not with gmail. Last I checked their IMAP wasn't fully IMAP. Fastmail FTW

bsg75 10y ago
Using v2.20 [1] built from http://repo.or.cz/alpine.git http://repo.or.cz/alpine.git I have Gmail working without much hassle using these docs: https://www.sjwrc.com/guides/alpine-and-gmail/ https://www.sjwrc.com/guides/alpine-and-gmail/ - namely just the IMAP paths. [1] http://patches.freeiz.com/alpine/release/ http://patches.freeiz.com/alpine/release/

superdaniel 10y ago

Not trying to be snarky, but why not use something like Thunderbird (or whatever comes default on the OS of the machine that you're using) that will render out the HTML natively?

luxpir 10y ago
If he's anything like me, a fellow mutt user, he cares more about speed and the text itself than pretty columns. It's surprising how little you miss html, particularly when breezing through email at a rate of knots. Plus system resources. So many resources.
- CaptSpify 10y ago
  Not OP, but... I find the inability to display HTML emails a feature, not a bug.
  - rsync 10y ago
    ding!

semi-extrinsic 10y ago

Depending on what kind of Word documents you get, you might be interested in trying terminal doc(x) to plain text converters. Last I checked they were fairly good for simple things.

l_zzie 10y ago

Do you browse to html files on your attachment server? That's a pretty bad idea security-wise

rsync 10y ago
"Do you browse to html files on your attachment server?" No, I don't.