On 2019-11-05 15:49, Karen Lewellen wrote: > How does mutt manage the need for a browser, to follow e-mail links > for example?
Mutt outsources the following of links to an external program. The typical way is to pipe the message to the "urlscan" program (there's also a "urlview" but it lacks some of the nice features of "urlscan"). The "urlscan" program scrapes the body of the email (or really, any input so it's not limited to launching URLs found in emails, but any text input) for all URLs it contains, presents them to you with context, and lets you open them in whatever browser you have configured, including lynx (bringing this back full-circle to this mailing-list). Similarly, mutt can work in conjunction with your mailcap file to open HTML attachments (such as multi-part MIME mail messages) directly in your browser of choice (such as lynx) or transforming the message into a text format like "lynx -dump" produces. This same mailcap functionality lets you set default programs for all manner of attachments such as PDF files (perhaps sending them through "pdftotext" or an OCR program), MS Word files (with catdoc, docx2txt, antiword, pandoc, etc), and all manner of other attachment-types. -tim _______________________________________________ Lynx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev
