Stop puzzling what those tags mean! Stop trying to decipher those html entities!
Try using the fabulous Vilistextum for converting your html mail into readable ascii!
For the time being, I only know to do this for mutt and gnus.
Instructions for other mail reader are welcome.
text/html; vilistextum %s - ; copiousoutput
And this in your .muttrc:
auto_view text/html
;; --------------------------------------------------------------------- (setq ;; prefer to show plain text over markup for multipart/alternative mm-discouraged-alternatives (append mm-discouraged-alternatives '("text/html" "text/richtext")) ) ;; adapted from Mark Thomas (swoon@bellatlantic.net) ;; use external program to view inline HTML (when t ;; change to nil to comment out (let ((old-text-html-test (assoc "text/html" mm-inline-media-tests)) (new-text-html-test '("text/html" my:gnus-html2text (lambda (handle) (fboundp 'my:gnus-html2text))))) (if old-text-html-test (setcdr old-text-html-test (cdr new-text-html-test)) (setq mm-inline-media-tests (cons new-text-html-test mm-inline-media-tests))))) ;; function to call to handle text/html attachments (defun my:gnus-html2text (handle) (let (text) (with-temp-buffer (mm-insert-part handle) (save-window-excursion (my:html2text-region (point-min) (point-max)) (setq text (buffer-string)))) (mm-insert-inline handle text))) (defun my:html2text-region-vilistextum (min max) "Replace the region with the result of running vilistextum --shrink-lines --remove-empty-alt --convert-tags --links on it. " (interactive "r") ;; vilistextum accepts html on stdin (call-process-region min max "vilistextum" t t t "-clrs" "-" "-")) (defalias 'my:html2text-region 'my:html2text-region-vilistextum) ;; ---------------------------------------------------------------------