Replying to messages without a text/plain portion

[jimcheetham]

Similar to #236, I get a lot of email (from users of the Outlook client, via Exchange) that arrives with no text/plain portion at all.

If I'm lucky they are MIME-delineated, but I've seen them arrive with only a Content-Type main header as well.

Not having them render HTML by default seems sensible, but they're therefore difficult to preview and reply to.

When using alot, I used to be able to generate my own text versions (I believe by asking mailcap(5), which would do something like run the file through lynx -dump); can we do something similar here?

[otwieracz]

Is this really closed? I am still not able to reply to HTML-only email, I end up quoting bunch of HTML nonsense.

[gauteh]

No, not really fixed.

[otwieracz]

Are there any plans how to deal with that issue? Is this somehow possible to reply to HTML-only email? Any known workaround? Turns out I receive quite a lot HTML-only emails and it become a showstopper…

[agrudzinsky]

Is it possible to create a "reply hook" that would pipe the original message to a filter before inserting it into the editor? Then this issue could be fixed by simply using "lynx -dump" or the like.

My company mail server also inserts "[EXTERNAL]" in the subject of emails received from outside the company and warnings inside the email body. Those get replicated in replies and create visual clutter. I can use this "reply hook" to remove them as well.