Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments
On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 10:24:38AM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
Opening pdfs in a reader is trivial with mutt. Just press 'v' and then
'Return' on the pdf attachment. It should be opened in your default pdf
viewer. This should work also for 'html' parts to be opened in your
default browser.
I understand. But some of the stuff I receive does not work as
expected. What do I do with the following PDF:
=?utf-8?B?QkhfODU0MDk2MjMwLnBkZg==?=
I'm assuming you already tried urlview and / or having the html mails
rendered with some text browser (I'm using w3m).
URLs: install urlview and press Ctrl-b to select the url you want (will
be passed to your default browser)
And urlview has difficulty with some of the links.
HTML rendering: install w3m and add 'auto_view text/html' to your
muttrc. You might also want to set 'alternative_order' to your
preference (I have it set to prefer text over html as I'm using mutt
mostly to read Debian lists).
I need to check these, tomorrow; I thank you, Andrei.
As per your other message you are using getmail to download everything
via POP3 to a local Maildir folder. This is important information!
There surely are ways to skip the wizard.
But is it worth the time and effort?
The only question remains whether Thunderbird can access Maildirs
directly.
I do not mind saving the message to a non-maildir, but I suppose that
means a mbox file.
All things considered, I am thinking that the best solution is to set
up a POP account on another domain and configure Thunderbird to fetch
mail from that location. Then all I need to do in mutt is to forward
troublesome messages to that account.
RLH
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