multipart mails with HTML and PNG/JPEG

[Akkana Peck]

Matthias Apitz writes:
> I often get mails meant for graphical MUA which have parts in HTML and
> files like PNG to be used when rendering the mail. The mutt 'v' command
> shows (as an example) the parts like this:
[ ... ]
> The HTML file contains the source of the image in the form
> "cid:qrcode-90866c7b-d03d-44fe-b963-d3bed6d08236":
[ ... ]
> Is there a tool to produce on Linux/FreeBSD a PDF combining HTML +
> image. Normally I store the HTML part and PNG part as files and fix the
> HTML code to find the file.

I couldn't find one and ended up writing a python script to do it. I wrote about it here:
https://shallowsky.com/blog/tech/email/mutt-viewmailattachments.html

There may be better built-in solutions now, but it's been working well enough for me that I haven't looked for other options. I also use it for viewing Word attachments by running them through unoconv (part of LibreOffice) to convert them to HTML, then showing them in a browser window.

        ...Akkana