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Bug 2440 - Make HTML email legible to the partially sighted
Summary: Make HTML email legible to the partially sighted
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: TDE
Classification: Unclassified
Component: tdeaccessibility (show other bugs)
Version: 3.5.13.x [Trinity]
Hardware: amd64 Debian Wheezy
: P5 wishlist
Assignee: Timothy Pearson
URL:
Depends on:
Blocks: 2968
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Reported: 2015-05-04 10:51 CDT by Lisi
Modified: 2018-08-30 02:52 CDT (History)
4 users (show)

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screenshot of an HTML email as displayed in KMail with teh HTML turned off (128.07 KB, image/png)
2015-05-04 10:51 CDT, Lisi 		Details
filter to convert a single kmail mail into text (187 bytes, text/x-shellscript)
2015-05-06 07:36 CDT, Nikolaus Klepp 		Details
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Description Lisi 2015-05-04 10:51:43 CDT 
Created attachment 2504 [details]
screenshot of an HTML email as displayed in KMail with teh HTML turned off

Please, may HTML mail, that is not displayed as HTML, be displayed legibly.  

I attach a screenshot of what it looks like now.

Developing and HTML are outside my comfort zone, so I am quoting from the developer (non-Trinity) who advised me to file this bug.

<quote>
html can quite easily be rendered as simple readable text. 

I think the developer has gone for literal interpretation, rather than meet the actual requirement. 

you should seek, that the kmail team add an option to display as readable plain text, rather than un-rendered raw html 

and / or rendered html with an alternative stylesheet.
</quote> 

I am still using 13.5.13.2, but am looking to update to 14, using Slávek's repository, in a few days time.

So could this be available for 14 please.

I put a lot of effort into trying to get only plain text or multipart-alternative emails, but it is a losing battle.

Thank you in advance.
Comment 1 Lisi 2015-05-06 06:16:19 CDT 
I should have added that the reason for my request is that I can't read HTML.  People use "pretty" colours and tiny "pretty" fonts, and the result from my point of view would make a nice picture, but conveys no information.  The large, clear black and white text that I need (see the attachment, and imagine it blown up to the extent possible on a screen) is not decorative, and most people would find it ugly.  So noone is going to send an HTML email looking like that!
Comment 2 Nikolaus Klepp 2015-05-06 07:36:33 CDT 
Created attachment 2506 [details]
filter to convert a single kmail mail into text
Comment 3 Nikolaus Klepp 2015-05-06 07:43:07 CDT 
This is not a thing for Lisi alone, but it's not the fault of kmail but of buggy mailclients sending mail without or mangled plaintext.

I've attached a simple filter ("filter to convert a single kmail mail into text") to convert a mail to readable html. It uses the debian packages "html2text" and "mpack".

Usage: cat <mailfile> | mbox_to_txt.sh

It would be "easy" to pipe the mail through that filter and display the output as the text message.
Comment 4 Nikolaus Klepp 2015-05-06 07:54:19 CDT 
Sorry that sed statement in the attachement should be:
 sed -e 's#&[^&;]*dash;#-#g' -e 's#&[^&;]*quo;#"#g'