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From: Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: What programs do you make sure are installed on a new Linux
 install?
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2024 11:39:46 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-07-14, candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
> Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> wrote at 07:09 this Sunday (GMT):
>> On 2024-07-14, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>>> On Sat, 13 Jul 2024 16:00:09 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 wrote:
>>>
>>>> I prefer a GUI for email specifically, bc of all the html emails that
>>>> break in something like mutt
>>>
>>> I see lack of HTML rendering for email to be a feature, not a bug.
>>
>> You can hook 'w3m' to display HTML emails in mutt.  Isn't as good as
>> viewing it in a graphical client, but works well enough to render the
>> text OK without all yht HTML markup.
>
>
> Interesting. I might try mutt again at some point..

The magic is using a mailcap file.  The contents of mine is

# auto view using w3m
text/html; w3m -F -I %{charset} -T text/html; copiousoutput;
text/plain; most ; copiousoutput


Then in your .muttrc, include this line, to use the .mailcap file.

set mailcap_path="~/.mailcap"