mutt vs. pine

[Charles Hallenbeck]

Hi folks,

I am taming mutt pretty well here to fit my needs, and while I have been 
a pine user for many years, I think I could learn to like this mutt 
thing.

However, two issues remain to be tamed. They are not "show stoppers," 
but nuisances for which there is probably an obvious (to somebody) fix.

1. When an html email is "included" in the body of a pine message, pine 
is as helpless as any other client. However, when an html message is 
attached, as opposed to included, pine renders it into plain text on the 
fly and does a very nice job indeed. I have often failed even to notice 
that what I have been reading has been an attached html document. Can 
mutt be configured to do that? If so, how?

2. When a URL appears in the body of an email message in pine, the 
browser's cursor can be brought to it, and moved from one such URL to 
another, and pressing 'enter' on one of those URL's can be made to 
launch a web browser to access the referenced site from within pine. 
Quitting the browser returns you to pine at the place where the browser 
was launched. Can mutt be configured to do that? If so, how?

I know mutt has earned a lot of devoted converts here, and I am hoping 
someone can show me how to do these two things. Meanwhile, I am using it 
regularly to give it a real run for the money, and it looks very nice. I 
made it compatible with my existing email archives, signature file, my 
favorite editor which includes a call to ispell upon exit, and the alias 
feature is an improvement over the pine addressbook in most respects.

Thanks in advance,

Chuck

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