[Mailman-Users] Re: Problems with content filtering

[Barry A. Warsaw]

>>>>> "DG" == David Gibbs <david at midrange.com> writes:

    DG> To fix the problem, we have to change the temporary directory
    DG> that lynx uses.

    DG> Change the HTML_TO_PLAIN_TEXT_COMMAND to the following ...

    | HTML_TO_PLAIN_TEXT_COMMAND = 'export LYNX_TEMP_SPACE=/tmp &&
    | /usr/bin/lynx -force_html -dump %(filename)s'

    DG> This causes the temporary directory that lynx will use to be
    DG> /tmp (which, btw, is the default for a freshly built lynx).

    DG> Now, this works fine ... I just tested it and got fine
    DG> results... HOWEVER, I really don't like the way lynx formats
    DG> the dumped html file... it's got extra spaces between each
    DG> line.  Don't know why.

    DG> I'm going to stick with links for now. :)

This would make a nice FAQwiz entry!
-Barry