[geeks] HTML email in mutt

[Alex Feinberg]

This is how I do it:

alex at behemoth:~$ cat .mailcap 
text/html       ; w3m -dump -cols 78 -T text/html %s ; copiousoutput
text/htm        ; w3m -dump -cols 78 -T text/html %s ; copiousoutput
message/html    ; w3m -dump -cols 78 -T text/html %s ; copiousoutput
message/htm     ; w3m -dump -cols 78 -T text/html %s ; copiousoutput

from .muttrc:

auto_view text/html
macro index \cb |'w3m -T text/html' "call w3m to extract URLs out of a message"
macro pager \cb |'w3m -T text/html' "call w3m to extract URLs out of a message

(This allows me to use Ctrl-b to fire up w3m on the messages if
either if either the mime-type is improper or if I need to get the
URLs out of the message to paste into a web browser).

    - Alex

On Saturday, 14 June 2008 at 16:20:06 -0400, Joshua Boyd wrote:
> I want to be able to view some html email in mutt.  So, I added the
> following lines to the indicated files.
> 
> .muttrc:
> auto_view text/html
> 
> .mailcap:
> text/html;        lynx %s; nametemplate=%s.html
> text/html;        lynx -dump %s; nametemplate=%s.html; copiousoutput
> 
> Now the issue I'm having is that for messages that come with both a
> proper text body and an HTML version, like ebay messages, I see the HTML
> version instead of the text version, which means that I do not see the
> URLs.  Does anyone have a trick for defaulting to the text/plain section
> before the text/html section?
> 
> Also, does anyone have a trick for detecting when the text/plain section
> is really HTML as well?
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