mutt vs. pine

[Garrett Klein]

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Hello, Chuck,

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?
I'm not sure about that one, but I can answer your next question.
> 
> 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?
There is a program called urlview that you can get on the mutt ftp site
in the contrib subdirectory (something like mutt/contrib or pub/contrib)
that you can, via a configuration file, customize to launch lynx (or
links, or elinks, or whatever). It actually displays all URLs in a menu
similar to the messages menu or the attachment menu when you press
control-b.

	So at least I've anaswered one of your questions. HTH.
> 
> 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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