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Re: looking for a piece of software that will take an url (say to a blog post) and email me the contents

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It used to be that ALL the browsers I used had a "forward as email" menu 
option, and, as I recall, some of them would bundle together pictures 
and other includes that went with a page.

I just checked, and to my horror, I now see that NONE of my browsers 
(Safari, Chrome, Firefox, Edge) offer that option - one offers "save as 
PDF" and another offers "mail link to page."

I expect that Seamonkey might still offer it - given that it still 
combines a browser and mail client in one program - but it's gotten 
flakier of late, which is why I stopped using it.

It also seems like various plug-ins and services, for doing this, have 
disappeared.  Now I'm kind of curious about it.


On 11/5/16 10:41 PM, Dan Hitt wrote:
> Thanks Miles (and also Dan P and Celejar for other solutions).
>
> Indeed Firefox has an archive format (maybe called 'maff'?), but how
> could you mail it to yourself?
>
> That is, how could you mail the maff without taking your hands off the
> keyboard, or switching apps or something like that?
>
> Ideally, the way it would work is you find a blog post or something
> that you like, then you go to a drop-down menu, and select 'mail this
> to me'.  Are there any plugins that are so savvy?
>
> TIA for any info, and thanks again Dan P and Celejar.
>
> dan
>
> On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 6:47 PM, Miles Fidelman
> <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> wrote:
>> On 11/5/16 6:01 PM, Dan Hitt wrote:
>>
>>> Does anybody know of a piece of software that you can give an URL to,
>>> and it will then fetch the url and email the contents to you?
>>>
>>> This could be a stand-alone app on the desktop, or a plug-in to a
>>> browser, or a web site, or some combo.  (I guess it could be a
>>> pipeline of curl and some mail program, but i'm afraid i'd just get
>>> piles of incomprehensible text.)
>>>
>>>
>> Well you might try:
>>
>> curl http://www.foo.com | uuencode page.html | mail myname@mydomain.com
>> or
>> ( echo "Content-Type: text/html"; curl http://www.foo.com) | sendmail
>> myname@mydomain.com
>>
>> Now, if you want all the components of a page - like embedded images and
>> such, or an entire site - then you might explore some of curl's options for
>> downloading a site, pipe that through zip, and email the archive.
>>
>> Or... most browsers will do this for you!
>>
>> --
>> In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
>> In practice, there is.  .... Yogi Berra
>>

-- 
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is.  .... Yogi Berra

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looking for a piece of software that will take an url (say to a blog  post) and email me the contents Dan Hitt <dan.hitt@gmail.com> - 2016-11-05 23:10 +0100
  Re: looking for a piece of software that will take an url (say to a  blog  post) and email me the contents Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2016-11-06 02:00 +0100
  Re: looking for a piece of software that will take an url (say to a  blog post) and email me the contents Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2016-11-06 02:30 +0100
  Re: looking for a piece of software that will take an url (say to a  blog post) and email me the contents Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> - 2016-11-06 03:00 +0100
    Re: looking for a piece of software that will take an url (say to a  blog post) and email me the contents Dan Hitt <dan.hitt@gmail.com> - 2016-11-06 03:50 +0100
      Re: looking for a piece of software that will take an url (say to a  blog post) and email me the contents Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> - 2016-11-06 20:10 +0100
        Re: looking for a piece of software that will take an url (say to a  blog post) and email me the contents Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-11-06 21:00 +0100
      Re: looking for a piece of software that will take an url (say to a  blog post) and email me the contents Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2016-11-07 19:30 +0100
      Re: looking for a piece of software that will take an url (say to  a blog post) and email me the contents davidson@freevolt.org - 2016-11-09 22:00 +0100
        Re: looking for a piece of software that will take an url (say to  a blog post) and email me the contents davidson@freevolt.org - 2016-11-09 22:10 +0100
        Re: looking for a piece of software that will take an url (say to  a blog post) and email me the contents davidson@freevolt.org - 2016-11-10 01:40 +0100
          Re: looking for a piece of software that will take an url (say to a  blog post) and email me the contents Dan Hitt <dan.hitt@gmail.com> - 2016-11-10 04:40 +0100
  Re: looking for a piece of software that will take an url (say to a  blog post) and email me the contents jeremy bentham <dnw@eskimo.com> - 2016-11-07 03:50 +0100
    Re: looking for a piece of software that will take an url (say to a  blog post) and email me the contents billwill onggo <billwill.onggo@gmail.com> - 2016-11-07 04:50 +0100
  Re: looking for a piece of software that will take an url (say to a  blog post) and email me the contents Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2016-11-07 13:20 +0100
  Re: looking for a piece of software that will take an url (say to a blog post) and email me the contents Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2016-11-07 14:30 +0100

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