Re: Using browse URL with WL

[Ken Gunderson <kgunders@teamcool.net>]

At Tue, 04 Feb 2014 16:04:19 -0500,
Rodrigo Amestica wrote:
> 
> At Tue, 04 Feb 2014 13:43:05 -0700,
> Ken Gunderson wrote:
> > 
> > At Mon, 03 Feb 2014 23:17:47 -0500,
> > Rodrigo Amestica wrote:
> > > 
> > > At Mon, 03 Feb 2014 19:47:45 -0700,
> > > Ken Gunderson wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Hello:
> > > > 
> > > > Any clue bats for how I can configure Wanderlust to use mime-w3m (or
> > > > something else) to view/display html'ized email in a readable format
> > > > and still use browse-url-browser-function to open links in my
> > > > preferred web browser rather than w3m??
> > > > 
> > > > TIA-- Ken
> > > 
> > > this seems to have done for me.
> > 
> > Awesome!! Many thanks!!  Been bugging me ever since I switched to
> > Emacs and Wanderlust (I use emacs but can't code lisp - go figure:).
> > 
> > > Cheers,
> > >  Rodrigo
> > > 
> > > 1 Render html using w3m
> > > =======================
> > > 
> > >   ,----
> > >   | (eval-after-load "w3m"
> > >   |   '(progn
> > >   |      (setq w3m-goto-article-function 'browse-url)
> > >   |      (define-key w3m-mode-map [left] 'backward-char)
> > >   |      (define-key w3m-mode-map [right] 'forward-char)
> > >   |      (define-key w3m-mode-map [up] 'previous-line)
> > >   |      (define-key w3m-mode-map [down] 'next-line)
> > >   |      (define-key w3m-minor-mode-map [left] 'backward-char)
> > >   |      (define-key w3m-minor-mode-map [right] 'forward-char)
> > >   |      (define-key w3m-minor-mode-map [up] 'previous-line)
> > >   |      (define-key w3m-minor-mode-map [down] 'next-line)))
> > >   | (require 'w3m)
> > >   | (require 'mime-w3m)
> > >   | (setq mime-w3m-display-inline-images t)
> > >   | (setq mime-w3m-safe-url-regexp nil)
> > >   `----
> > 
> > Except I think that last bit might be a little sketchy.  You really
> > want any and all email containing embedded image url's phoning home to
> > the spammers??  Or am I missing something there??
> 
> if I remember well then the problem I had without setting
> mime-w3m-safe-url-regexp to nil was that every time I tried to follow a link it
> would ask me for confirmation and that drove me crazy. On the other hand, either
> in wl or any other client, if I see a link in an email then I assume that it is
> extremely unsafe to click it, unless the message is from a well known
> source. That is, I normally click links from known people messages only. Does
> that make sense?
> 
> If I inspect the variable it shows nil and it tells me that the original value
> was "\\`cid:". Is that your same default?

No.  It seems to d/l embedded images such at
http://some.spammer.com/foo.gif/your-email-address-id-cookie w/o
prompt.  So if a spammer/miscreant included, for example, a 1x1 pixel
image resolving to some host url, then your settings would suck that
down w/o prompting for confirmation whenever you opened/viewed that
particular message.  Which should be fine so long as you've got good
filters.  Otherwise they may be collecting data on you and reselling,
as spammer databases have value in and of themselves.

The above is just off the top of my head.  Please note that I haven't
investigated thoroughly, but just wanted to point out a "head's up" on
this until I had time to investigate more fully.

Thanks again!

Best-- Ken