Re: auxiliary mail client for HTML

[Dejan Jocic <jodejka@gmail.com>]

On 12-11-19, Curt wrote:
> On 2019-11-08, Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> wrote:
> >
> >> I thought everybody just used a mailcap file and was fine.
> >
> > I do and have it setup to use w3m to deal with most HTML mail.  Some
> > does look better in a GUI program and that's why I do this.
> >
> 
> Well, then
> 
>  text/html;  /usr/bin/firefox %s >/dev/null 2>&1; needsterminal
>  text/html;  elinks -dump %s; nametemplate=%s.html; copiousoutput
> 
> Or something like it. Needing or preferring a gui client doesn't seem
> preclude using a mailcap file (or vice versa). 
> 
> I'm not a mutt user, though, so maybe I got it wrong. I also forgot what
> the "this" was in the "that's why I do this" above.
> 
> ;-)

text/html;      firefox -new-tab %s & sleep 5; test=test -n "$DISPLAY";
nametemplate=%s.html
text/html;      lynx -dump %s; nametemplate=%s.html; copiousoutput

Or at least that works here. I'm sure that it can be done better though,
but did not have need to dig in more into it.

All best,
Dejan