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Re: responding to HTML email



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On Wednesday, March  5 at 12:00 PM, quoth Bill Moseley:
>Most of the time I get HTML email that also has a text/plain part,
>and that's what I reply to.
>
>I've been getting mail from someone using Thunderbird that is
>text/html only.
>
>What I've been doing is hitting "e" to bring up the message in vim,
>highlight the HTML and ! (filter) it though html2text.  Then I use ^E
>to change the content type to text/plain.
>
>I suspect there's an much easier way to deal with HTML-only email
>(other than /dev/null).

All you have to do is auto_view text/html and have an entry in your 
mailcap file for text/html that has the copiousoutput flag set.

I think this ought to be a FAQ; it's probably in the mutt wiki 
somewhere.

~Kyle
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