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



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;)

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