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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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On 11/6/2016 1:07 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote:
> 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.

I have SeaMonkey 2.40 for 32 bit Windows. It has "mail link to 
page" with apparently no way to set a default recipient.


>
> 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
>>>
>

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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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