[Users] Update on HTML plugin?

[Ethy H. Brito]

On Tue, 30 Apr 2019 13:27:00 -0400
Lee Underwood <mail at leeunderwood.org> wrote:

> Thanks, Ralf. That helps greatly. It seems I will have to use another mail
> client while using 18.04. It's too bad as I have use CM for 10+ years now.
> 'Maybe' something will change.
> 
> Thanks to all for the help. (I will stay on the list, though.)
> 
> Lee

Hi

You don't have to leave claws-mail.
(big fat warning: this is a hideous/disgusting hack!! do it at your own risk)

Install dillo browser package from Software updates (sudo apt install dillo).

Download claws-mail-dillo-viewer for Ubuntu 18.10 (yes! eighteen-ten)
(https://packages.ubuntu.com/cosmic/mail/claws-mail-dillo-viewer) and tweak
control file to make dillo-viewer think it depends on claws-mail 3.16.0

Change (in control):
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.4), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.24.0),
claws-mail (= 3.17.1-1), dillo (>= 3)

to 

Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.4), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.24.0),
claws-mail (= 3.16.0-1), dillo (>= 3)

Use something like (edit to fulfill your needs):

fakeroot sh -c '
  mkdir tmp
  dpkg-deb -R claws-mail-dillo-viewer_3.17.1-1_amd64.deb tmp
  cd tmp
  vi DEBIAN/control
  dpkg-deb -b tmp claws-mail-dillo-viewer_3.17.1-1~leeunderwood_amd64.deb
'

Install with "dpkg -i ./claws-mail-dillo-viewer_3.17.1-1~leeunderwood_amd64"

I did that a few weeks ago and it is running smooth so far.

I do not remember exactly the commands I run, but you got the idea.

Hope this helps.

Cheers

Ethy

> 
> 
> On Mon, Apr 29, 2019, Ralf Mardorf <silver.bullet at zoho.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 21 Apr 2019 13:55:50 -0400, Lee Underwood wrote:  
> > >I was wondering if anyone had any update regarding the HTML plugin for
> > >Claws Mail v.3.16, in Ubuntu 18.04?    
> > 
> > On Sun, 28 Apr 2019 16:09:41 -0400, Lee Underwood wrote:  
> > >How do I go about contacting Ubuntu about it?    
> > 
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > "Point of contact for Ubuntu users to reach Ubuntu developers" -
> > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
> > 
> > Since Claws packages are "universe" packages, they aren't maintained by
> > Canonical, they're maintained by the community.
> > 
> > Neither Fancy nor Dillo is available for 18.04.
> > 
> > Take a look at the top right, only xenial is mentioned:
> > 
> > https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/mail/claws-mail-fancy-plugin
> > 
> > Here only cosmic, disco and eoan are provided:
> > 
> > https://packages.ubuntu.com/cosmic/claws-mail-dillo-viewer
> > 
> > Debian "upstream" for Ubuntu (take a look at the right of the link's
> > page) already dropped fancy (take a look at the left of the link's
> > page):
> > 
> > https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/claws-mail
> > 
> > You are hopefully aware about the Ubuntu release model poklicy. If not,
> > learn a little bit about your distro of choice. The executive summary:
> > Don't expect that a plugin for 18.04 ever will be provided.
> > 
> > Perhaps a PPA or a Snap provides Claws with the desired plugin,
> > consider to send a request to:
> > 
> > "This list is for Ubuntu user technical support." -
> > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Ralf
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
> > Users mailing list
> > Users at lists.claws-mail.org
> > https://lists.claws-mail.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users  
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Users mailing list
> Users at lists.claws-mail.org
> https://lists.claws-mail.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users


-- 

Ethy H. Brito         /"\
InterNexo Ltda.       \ /  CAMPANHA DA FITA ASCII - CONTRA MAIL HTML
+55 (12) 3797-6860     X   ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN - AGAINST HTML MAIL
S.J.Campos - Brasil   / \ 
 
PGP key: http://www.inexo.com.br/~ethy/0xC3F222A0.asc