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Re: responding to HTML email



On 2008-03-05, Bill Moseley <moseley@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 02:04:48PM -0600, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Oh, I see I disabled that in the past.  I guess auto_view worked
> for the pager and replying (by passing the plain text to the editor)
> but the .mailcap text/html entry also effects the attachment display.
> 
> In my attachment menu I'd like to be able to have it still run
> my web browser for text/html.
> 
> Is there anyway to say use auto_view and the .mailcap entry for the
> pager, but in the attachment menu use a different mailcap entry?
> I didn't see in 3.3.1 Optional Fields a way to have different mailcap
> entries for the pager and the attachment menu.

Yes.

   http://www.spocom.com/users/gjohnson/mutt/#html

HTH,
Gary