[neomutt-users] Tool that enables sending HTML-formatted mail with Mutt

[Ismael Bouya]

Hey Amit and all,
Your program looks great, I was actually wondering a few days ago wether
this kind of thing already existed or not.
Is there any way to have it as a hook before sending (like a hook that
would create another mime part) rather than wrapping the sendmail
program? That would permit to remove the html version before sending, if
necessary.

(Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 04:15:15PM +0200) Amit Ramon :
> Hello all,
> 
> As a long-time Mutt (and now NeoMutt) user, who's also writing in a
> right-to-left language (Hebrew in my case) I've received, from time to
> time, complaints from people to whom I sent emails about the Hebrew
> text not displaying properly - in most cases, depending on the email
> client, it was aligned to the left, making it difficult to read.
> 
> As I couldn't control the behavior of the email clients at the
> receiving side, the way I found to overcome this problem was to add a
> HTML part, containing direction directives, to the email message.
> 
> This gave me the initial motivation for developing this tool,
> plainMail2HTML:
> 
> https://github.com/amitramon/plainMail2HTML
> 
> It acts as a filter: instead of piping the email generated by Mutt
> directly into sendmail (which is the way Mutt works), you pipe it into
> plainMail2HTML, and the output is then piped into sendmail.
> 
> plainMail2HTML looks for the first text/plain message, parse it (for
> example, using reStructuredText) and generate a HTML component that is
> added to the message.
> 
> Besides solving the "direction problem", it allows one to use markup
> language for composing mail, that will be displayed nicely on a HTML
> email client.
> 
> I wrote this tool a couple of years age and I'm using it since
> then. However, until not so long ago it was in a pretty much immature
> state. Only recently have I brought it, I hope, to a better state,
> added documentation and made it more usable.
> 
> I hope you find it useful. I'd be happy to answer any question and to
> provide more explanations.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Amit

-- 
Ismael
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