replacement for netscrape mail

[Bob Bell]

On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 04:02:40PM -0500, Derek Martin <gnhlug at sophic.org> wrote:
> No, you don't.  If you don't want to use the graphical browser, the
> lynx line takes care of you.  You need this line in .muttrc:
> 
>   auto_view text/html

    Alternative, set implicit_autoview=yes if you want to autoview
everything for wich you have a text viewer.

    You might also want to pay attention to the "alternative_order"
setting to describe the preference you give to multi-part message (e.g.,
prefer viewing the HTML version or the text version?)

> Once you add that, there's nothing else you need to do.  HTML mail
> will simply appear in mutt's window when you open the message.  Lynx
> doesn't support tables, so you may well lose some formatting, but
> whaddaya want?  It's text-based.  Links might work a bit better, but
> AFAIK it does not allow you to dump an ASCII representation (i.e. it's
> interactive only).  If you have some other program that can convert
> HTML to ASCII, that should work as well as lynx.

    FWIW, w3m might work for this as well.  I used to use it, but
I think I switch back to lynx for some reason (I have no idea why).

-- 
Bob Bell <bobbell at zk3.dec.com>
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