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List:       alpine-info
Subject:    Re: [Alpine-info] viewing HTML + inline images?
From:       Eduardo Chappa <alpine.chappa () yandex ! com>
Date:       2020-06-08 3:50:23
Message-ID: alpine.LNX.2.22.432.2006072129140.19232 () linux-aknz
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On Thu, 4 Jun 2020, Eduardo Chappa wrote:

> On Mon, 1 Jun 2020, Iosif Fettich wrote:
>
>>> Maybe this is something we need to add to Alpine....
>>
>> +1
>
> I have been working on implementing this, and I am hitting a barrier.
> at the last step.

I wanted to update everyone where I am at this moment with this. First, I 
have an experimental implementation in the git repository, ready for 
anyone to test it. There is a link from the Release Notes that teaches you 
how to use this command, but the simplest form to use it is to go to the 
ATTACHMENT SCREEN, place the cursor over a TEXT/HTML attachment and press 
"X".

I eventually decided against using /tmp for several reasons. I do realize 
Alpine already uses /tmp for temporary files, but for this feature tese 
files were email messages, so I am treating them as privileged 
information. When I was a student at the University of Washington, I never 
had access to Alpine in a personal computer, but /tmp was a shared 
resource used by faculty, staff and students, and I did not feel that 
Alpine should be placing copies of email messages in a shared resource. 
Because of that, Alpine will use the ~/.alpine-html directory, or 
alpine-html folder in PC-Alpine. This is a similar decision to using 
~/.alpine-smime for saving all smime information. I am refraining from 
putting personal email messages away from user space.

Alpine creates temporary subdirectories in this directory, and removes 
every directory it created that has been there for at least 10 minutes, or 
upon exiting, whichever comes first. The directory .alpine-html is also 
temporary, meaning that Alpine will try to remove it upon exiting, or when 
no temporary files created by Alpine remain in it.

Please test it, and let me know if you have any suggestions for improving 
it. Thank you.

-- 
Eduardo
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