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Ask HN: How to View the HTML Part of an Email?
I use Thunderbird. I have configured it so that it shows me the text part of the emails I get.
Unfortunately, every now and then the text part is so broken that I would like to render the HTML part.
But it seems like Thunderbird does not offer a way to do this for a single email.
Looking at the source code of such an email, there is no plain HTML but some gibberish with "Content-Type: multipart/alternative;" or "Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable".
Any ideas how to go about this?
- LinuxBender 5y agoThe method I prefer is to put the email in a text file and read it with parsemime.pl [1] There is probably a way to call this directly from Thunderbird but I do it so rarely I just haven't bothered to look into it. [1] - https://www.gnu.org/software/gnats/mimedecode.html https://www.gnu.org/software/gnats/mimedecode.html
- petercooper 5y agoI actually did a video about this very topic a few years back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM_EqpSuodY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM_EqpSuodY .. but basically you can find an online converter for quoted-printable. I'm not sure how useful this is for repeated use, I was doing it for debugging purposes.
- TekMol 5y agoPS: Now I noticed there is "View > Message Body As > Original HTML" That applies to all messages. But it is quick enough to switch it back. So I will use that.