Re: Problem with T-bird (was Re: Mail Issues (pt 2 ))

[Florian Kulzer <florian@molphys.leidenuniv.nl>]

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...)

>                                    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?

(runs for cover)

-- 
Regards,
          Florian