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I tried to commit to mutt but, the vast majority of emails I receive are HTML based which means you have to launch and open a new web browser window to view alm

I tried to commit to mutt but, the vast majority of emails I receive are HTML based which means you have to launch and open a new web browser window to view almost every email. This was a total PITA.

rinze 4y ago
It depends. Most HTML e-mail can be parsed within the mutt viewer using an external program that converts HTML -> text in a graceful way. That works for 99 % of the HTML e-mail (which is typically just people that send it that way because they don't know better.) For newsletters and such, you can have a shortcut that opens the HTML portion in a browser tab automatically. This is done by adding this to your ~/.mailcap: text/html; mutt_bgrun /usr/bin/firefox %s >/dev/null 2>&1; needsterminal text/html; elinks -dump ; copiousoutput (where `mutt_bgrun` is here: https://www.mattcutts.com/files/mutt_bgrun https://www.mattcutts.com/files/mutt_bgrun) And then on ~/.muttrc: macro index,pager ,b "<view-attachments>/html<enter><view-mailcap><exit>" "View first HTML attachment in browser" That way, if I'm on an e-mail and I want the actual HTML rendering, I hit ",b" and it goes to a browser tab.
- jwilk 4y ago
  If you really want to view mails in Firefox, you should do this in a dedicated profile that has JavaScript and outgoing connections disabled.
  - hsbauauvhabzb 4y ago
    What’s the impact of not disabling JavaScript?
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twic 4y ago
Weird. The vast majority of emails i get (which i actually want to read) work fine in Alpine. Either they have a plain text version, or Alpine is rendering the HTML, i'm not sure which. Who is sending you these obligate HTML emails?