Re: What's best way to handle HTML emails in Mutt?

[Chris Green <cl@isbd.net>]

hobie of RMN <hobie@rumormillnews.com> wrote:
> For 20 years I've enjoyed Mutt as my primary mail reader.  I used its
> 'bounce' feature to deal with HTML mails, sending them to a webmail
> program on a different server.  But now the jellyfish anti-spam daemon
> won't allow me to do that; it rejects my bounced emails because "From:"
> and "(envelope-from)" are not the same.
> 
> What's the best way to handle this?  Switch to Thunderbird or claws-mail?
> 
I simply use lynx to view 99% of HTML E-Mail and the odd one that
doesn't view well by that means I feed into my web browser.  All on
the same machine.

In ~/.mailcap I have:-

    text/html; lynx -dont_wrap_pre -dump %s; copiousoutput; nametemplate=%s.html

That does the work of viewing most HTML E-Mail as text.  Then, when
that doesn't work I use 'v' in mutt to view the parts of the E-Mail
and feed the text/html bit to my browser with 'm' (view-mailcap).

To do this second bit I have the following in ~/.mailcap:-

    text/html; /home/chris/bin/muttview %s html

This comes before the line that calls lynx, I can't quite remember how
it works, I think it's the 'copiousoutput' bit that means that line
gets selected by default.  

The /home/chris/bin/muttview is rather complicated in my case because
I run mutt remotely by ssh and feed the html back through the ssh
connection with a reverse tunnel to view in the browser on the client
machine.  If you are running mutt locally then just call your web
browser.

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Chris Green
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