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Viewing HTML messages in EXTERNAL browser

Wed, 17 Jan 2007 11:21:01 +0200

Viewing HTML messages in EXTERNAL browser in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.
see if these are displayed better if the file extension is .htm, if so you may create sub-filters to export with different extensions.

If however the problem is caused by some invalid tags in the source, it will be harder. Then the external action should run something else, for example a .vbs file, that modifies the exported file and then launches it in a browser.
17 January 2007 11:21:01, bigg one.

Viewing HTML messages in EXTERNAL browser

Wed, 17 Jan 2007 05:57:51 +0200

Viewing HTML messages in EXTERNAL browser in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.
bigg one,

Thank you for the tip.

I tested your recipe and it seams to work very well in case of some messages (like e.g. these which I receive from Dell Direct, BMG Music Service, Corel, etc.)

For other sources (like e.g. Amazon.com, Buy.com, Ecost.com, Ebay.com and others) what I get in IE is basically HTML code, sometimes starting with tag, sometimes starting just from the middle of it.
I tried to investigate for a few minutes, but so far I have not found yet a clue what is causing this. If I find some pattern - I will let you know.

Thanks again for the tip as this is works very well, if it works at all. It would be great if it was working that way for all HTML messages,

ZBH

17 January 2007 05:57:51, Zbigniew Helak.

Viewing HTML messages in EXTERNAL browser

Tue, 16 Jan 2007 18:24:52 +0200

Viewing HTML messages in EXTERNAL browser in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.
When I double click Message.html, I see a warning(where I click 'No') and then the message opens in IE. Messages seem to be properly formatted, only embedded images are missing.

To see the message as close to the original as possible, with embedded images etc., you may create a filter.
Make a manually triggered filter, executed only by pressing a shortcut combination.

For Condition set 'Any message'

As action 1, select 'Export the message' and set the following:
- export to file - C:\test.mhtml
- export format - RFC....
- overwrite existing file
(note that C:\test.mhtml must exist, so initially create a dummy empty one)

As action 2, select 'Run external action' and type the following command incl. quotes
"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" C:\test.mhtml

Now when you select a message and press the assigned shortcut, the message should be exported and then opened in IE.
Will surely work with IE7, not sure if IE6 supports .mhtml

hth
16 January 2007 18:24:52, bigg one.

Viewing HTML messages in EXTERNAL browser

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 20:57:07 +0200

Viewing HTML messages in EXTERNAL browser in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.
HTML messages are not properly formatted in The Bat! They are at least missing not-included pictuers and formatting is also often messed up. The same situation (even more severe) I had in Eudora. But in Eudora I could right-click on the message and select "Send To Browser". Then External browser (e.g. IE) would open and show the message. Is the same possible in The Bat! ???

OK, I know the security problems associated with that, but I receive a lot of messages from known sources formatted that way and I would like to have at least the same option of viewing them.

Please tell me how to do it?

Thank you,
ZBH

15 January 2007 20:57:07, Zbigniew Helak.