Re: mail messages with only html

["s. keeling" <keeling@nucleus.com>]

Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>:
> 
>  On 09/13/07 17:36, Richard Lyons wrote:
> > This is becoming more of a problem.  There is a growing number of firms
> > that are incapable of sending out normal emails.  They insist on sending
> > blank messages with an html attachment only.  Of course this is usually
> 
>  Not a direct answer to your question, but if you are using mutt
>  under X, then there are html viewers that can hook into mutt.

Not just X.  w3m works just fine with mutt.

(0) heretic /home/keeling_ grep w3m mutt/mailcap
multipart/alternative ;  /usr/bin/w3m -dump %s; copiousoutput; nametemplate=%s.html
multipart/related     ;  /usr/bin/w3m -dump %s; copiousoutput; nametemplate=%s.html
text/html             ;  /usr/bin/w3m -T text/html -dump %s ; copiousoutput


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