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Created February 2, 2017 15:39
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Handling HTML mail with Mutt
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mailcap
# HTML (when you press Enter in the attachment list)
text/html; /usr/bin/links -html-assume-codepage %{charset} '%s'; needsterminal; description=HTML Text; nametemplate=%s.html
# maybe also consider -html-hard-assume 1
# HTML mail (rendered in Mutt's pager and also what you get when replying)
text/html; /usr/bin/w3m -dump -s -o display_link=yes -o display_link_number=yes -o decode_url=yes -T text/html -I %{charset}; copiousoutput; description=HTML Text
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# render HTML and some other types as text
auto_view text/html application/text application/pdf
# many companies send very poor text/plain parts, so prefer html to text/plain
alternative_order text/enriched text/html text/plain text
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