[OS X Emacs] Re: dealing with fancy text in rmail mode

[Rodney Sparapani]

Art Werschulz wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> This is an emacs-on-linux issue, rather than an emacs-on-mac issue, but I tend to get better answers here than a lot of other places, so here goes ...
> 
> Scenario: Fedora 16, emacs 23.3.1.  I use RMAIL to read my mail.  I often get mail that's hard to read, either because it has over-long lines or because it's HTML.  Note that I can take measures to fix these problems by hand.  For example, with HTML mail, I can go into RMAIL-edit mode and pipe the buffer through "lynx -dump -stdin".  
> 
> First question: Is there some emacs package that will take care of these things automatically?
> 
> There's a further wrinkle.  If I go into RMAIL-edit mode for a message that has an attachment, the attachment gets lost, even if I abort the edit.  By "gets lost", I mean that the clickable link goes away, leaving me with only the attachment's filename.   This is much more serious; I've had to ask people to resend their attachments.  Note that this problem occurs when doing "emacs -q".
> 
> Second question: Does anybody know why the attachments are getting lost, and (more importantly) how to fix the problem?
> 
> Thanks!!

I have played with some of this stuff, but it takes an investment of 
time in my experience.  Have you tried VM v8.2?

Rodney