Subject: colours in Pine 4.44 HTML

From: Andrew Daviel <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 16:55:14 -0800 (PST)

("color" for US-based searchers :-) )

I've been using Pine for ages (well, it seems like it anyway) and have
inherited my rc file through various updates. I happen to like
black-text-on-white and have my xterm set like that, can't be bothered to
tune the colours so they're readable and have no-color set in the config.

However, some HTML mail appears partly in colour. Recently, since 4.44
I think, I've noticed some with yellow-on-white for <b> (nearly 
unreadable)
and white-on-white for links (completely unreadable). This is a
MIME email with 2 parts. Viewed as text, the yellow is gone (replaced 
by black) but the links are still invisible.
Paradoxically, if I select term-color or 8-bit-color in the Pine config
the message appears as grey-on-black with some white highlights.

I confess I don't entirely understand colour in xterms etc. and
attempt to turn it all off when I can. I was wondering 
why Pine generates colour when I've told it not to, and if there
is some config for colour for bold, links, visited links etc.,
or if Pine recognizes colour in bgcolor or font elements in HTML

I've just realized that I'm seeing different things in different 
xterms. I can't immediately see what was different about the way they were
spawned. Oh foo...

-- 
Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada
Tel. +1 (604) 222-7376
[email-masked]

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