Re: Gnus -- remove inline HTML images

[Phillip Lord]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <lmi@gnus.org> writes:

> Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@russet.org.uk> writes:
>
>> I would like to be able to delete inline HTML images in Gnus. People
>> keep on sending me pointless images, and it's breaking my long habit of
>> "inbox infinite". With mime attachments, I just ditch the big ones, but
>> I cannot do this with inline images in HTML.
>>
>> I guess that most of these images are "cid", although I don't know
>> enough about email to know if there are other methods widely used.
>>
>> Is there any mechanism in Gnus for achieving this?
>
> If you hit `e', you can edit the message.  The embedded images will
> appear as mml tags, like
>
>   <\#part type=image/png name="mailphoto.png" id="<mailphoto.png>" buffer=" 
> *mml*-862362">
>   <\#/part>
>
> and you can just delete those.

Okay, that's a way to do it, albeit rather clunky.

I guess you would have no objection to adding a new washing method or
something equivalent that would remove all of these?

Phil