Author: Xenguy.fl9z Date: To: Walter Dnes CC: Devuan List Subject: Re: [DNG] Question .mailcap entry for text/html mutt reading HTML
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From: "Walter Dnes" ; Sent: Friday, November 21, 2025 12:25:35 AM: > I'm running mutt in X. The default is raw HTML spewage. Setting...
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> text/html; w3m -I %{charset} -T text/html; copiousoutput;
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> ...gives me readable text. I'd prefer to launch a browser but both...
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> text/html; /usr/bin/chromium --profile-directory="Default" %s;
> text/html; /usr/bin/chromium --profile-directory="Default" %s; nametemplate=%s.html;
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> ...fail. What am I missing?
A long time ago I was using mutt, and loving it.
I found a way to have HTML email displayed through 'lynx'. I don't recall if lynx was configured to display the email, or rather convert HTML email to text (e.g. lynx -dump). It seemed to work decently for me at the time, as a person who eschewed HTML formatted email, and preferred text-only email.