[Users] Using the Dillo HTML viewer --- possibly useful information.

[Rolf Turner]

This email is an attempt to pass on some information which might
possibly be useful to other users of claws-mail who, like me, are a bit
mentally challenged. :-)

Just yesterday I managed (after some travail, and a great deal of
guidance (particularly from Paul <claws at thewildbeast.co.uk>), to
install the most recent claws-mail (3.17.6) from source and thereby made
available to myself the various plugins, in particular the Dillo HTML
viewer.  (This was my main motivation for the install-from-source
exercise.)

I found it reasonably easy to load the plugin, but then got stuck on
the "*Now* what do I do?" step.  I.e. how do I *use* the plugin?  I.e.
how do I actually view an email in HTML form?

The claws-mail manual takes you to the link

    http://www.claws-mail.org/plugins.php

where you find "More information" uder the "Dillo HTML Viewer" entry.
And there you find screen shots, including

> Dillo HTML Viewer displaying the same email, after clicking on the
> 'Reload' context menu item.

Ah!  That's what I need!  But WTF is the "'Reload' context menu
item"???  Nowhere could I find any explanation of this term.  After a
great deal of thrashing around I discovered that if I clicked on the
last of the little icons appearing on the right hand side of a message
window then I got the HTML display.

On the chance that this might be helpful to others (who are as obtuse
as I am) I have attached a screen shot (converted to pdf form and
annotated) showing what I mean.

Finally let me add that when I at last figured out how to use it, the
Dillo HTML viewer worked like a charm! :-)

cheers,

Rolf Turner

-- 
Honorary Research Fellow
Department of Statistics
University of Auckland
Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 88276
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