Reading html mail with mutt

[James McDonald]

On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 10:02:24PM -0500, Joel Hammer wrote:
> I thought I would pass this along since this took me a while to get
> working.
> 
> I don't know how the pro's (mutt pro's) do this, but I finally got mutt
> to read html mail. I put this line in /etc/mailcap:
> 
> text/html;         /etc/alternatives/mozilla -remote 'openFile (%s,new-tab)' 1>/dev/null 2>&1  || /etc/alternatives/mozilla %s
> 
> Of course, this only works if you are reading mail in a GUI, not a
> virtual terminal. 

I suppose just replacing mozilla for lynx would give you a terminal based html/email reader

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