mutt vs. pine

[Gregory Nowak]

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Hi Chuck and all.

To be able to read html mail in pine, put the following line in your
.mailcap:

text/html; lynx -force_html %s

This will let you hit enter on an html attachment, and that will
launch lynx. There is a way to make lynx launch on the fly so to speak
when you are reading an html message, but I never implemented it,
because I wanted to know what I'm reading. The method for doing this
is described in the list archives somewhere, or maybe someone else
will post it again.

To be able to arrow up and down URLS in a message, and hit enter on
one, you'll need to install the urlview package, which I don't
remember the URL for now. You would then hit ctrl+b in a message, and
get the list of URLS in that message. Hth.

Greg


On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 10:59:26AM -0400, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:
> 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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