Just a few additional bits added
On Sat, Dec 28, 2024 at 10:23:09AM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> hobie of RMN <ho...@rumormillnews.com> wrote:
> > For 20 years I've enjoyed Mutt as my primary mail reader. I used its
> > 'bounce' feature to deal with HTML mails, sending them to a webmail
> > program on a different server. But now the jellyfish anti-spam daemon
> > won't allow me to do that; it rejects my bounced emails because "From:"
> > and "(envelope-from)" are not the same.
> >
> > What's the best way to handle this? Switch to Thunderbird or claws-mail?
> >
> I simply use lynx to view 99% of HTML E-Mail and the odd one that
> doesn't view well by that means I feed into my web browser. All on
> the same machine.
>
To get most HTML displayed inside mutt you could add this to your .muttrc:
# for html mails
alternative_order text/plain text/html
unauto_view *
auto_view text/html
macro index,pager \cb "<pipe-message> urlscan<Enter>" "call urlscan to extract
URLs out of a message"
macro attach,compose \cb "<pipe-entry> urlscan<Enter>" "call urlscan to extract
URLs out of a message"
The bottom two lines are for urlscan. The output is not really pretty, but
you will see the real url . These then will open with whatever xdg-open is
set to.
> In ~/.mailcap I have:-
>
> text/html; lynx -dont_wrap_pre -dump %s; copiousoutput;
> nametemplate=%s.html
>
As some pointed out the other option w3m;
This is what is in my .mailcap:
text/html; w3m -dump -o display_link_number=true -I %{charset} -T text/html
'%s'; copiousoutput; description=HTML Text; %nametemplate=%s.html;
needsterminal; priority=1
> That does the work of viewing most HTML E-Mail as text. Then, when
> that doesn't work I use 'v' in mutt to view the parts of the E-Mail
> and feed the text/html bit to my browser with 'm' (view-mailcap).
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-H
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Henning Follmann | hfollm...@itcfollmann.com
