On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 09:02:03PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 11:37:20 -0700, Christopher Nelson wrote: > > On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 01:26:07PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > After reading how much you like T-bird, I installed it and tried > > > > it. However, it does not let me use sendmail as the outgoing > > > > email method. That's... unbelievable. > > > > > > Sure it can, it just uses the SMTP method of access. Want to know > > > what is > > > unbelievable? mutt not being able to use anything but the command line > > > method. How 80s is that? You'd think the past 20+ years didn't exist. > > > > mutt's job is to do one thing and do it well--be a command-line MUA. It > > does an admirable job, and I use it except when inconsiderate friends > > send me HTML garbage in my email. > > I have the following three lines in my ~/.muttrc: > > set mailcap_path="~/.mutt_mailcap" > alternative_order text/plain text/html > auto_view text/html > > and these two lines in my ~/.mutt_mailcap: > > text/html; /usr/bin/links '%s'; needsterminal; description=HTML Text; > nametemplate=%s.html > text/html; /usr/bin/links -dump '%s'; copiousoutput; description=HTML Text; > nametemplate=%s.html > > This works very well, using links to display a formatted text-version > for html-only emails. (My boss sends me such emails, therefore I have to > accommodate them...)
hey thanks Florian, this is great! > > > It's so wonderful to have your mail > > take up no more space than an xterm. And to edit your mails in whatever > > your /usr/bin/editor happens to be today. > > > > Alright, let's grease up for a marginally on-topic flamewar! > > Ooh, a flamewar! Can I play, too? Here's some more gasoline: Don't you > think it's incredible that, given the choice of several excellent > editors, some people still insist on messing around with a bloated > common-lisp runtime engine? > heh, I use emacs -nw as my editor when running mutt, so you could say I've got an operating sytem running my mailer running an operating sytem. How's that for stupid and backwards;) A
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