On 18 May 2004, Stephen Patterson wrote: > On Tue, 18 May 2004 02:20:07 +0200, Victor Munoz wrote: > > > > > Hello. I'm reading mails in both a woody and a sid machine with mutt, > > and it behaves differently with html mails. > > There are 2 settings which control how mutt behaves with html mails. > Firstly, you need a line in ~/.mailcap (either of the following will do) > so mutt can determine how to render html. > > text/html; w3m -T text/html -dump %s; copiousoutput > text/html; lynx -dump %s; copiousoutput > > You're probably best using lynx > as with the -dump option it deactivates all the links in the page, but > gives you a list of them at the end. However, it doesn't render tables, > which w3m does (though w3m drops all the links) > > After setting either of the above in ~/.mailcap, you need to put > auto_view text/html > in ~/.muttrc so that mutt will pass html to lynx or w3m for parsing and > display the result in the message pane. >
I don't find that either of these text browsers produces a legible output but dillo works well. Anthony -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] || http://www.acampbell.org.uk using Linux GNU/Debian || for book reviews, electronic Windows-free zone || books and skeptical articles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
