Mutt is infinitely configurable at user level it seems.  But daunting.  Why
not make it easier for the novices (me included perhaps) to do real useful
things with mutt that enhance daily efficiency.  

I would like to start with viewing of attachments.  

The reality for most users is a high percentage of email carrying
attachments in various formats.  Why not give them a "bolt-on" solution
like a list of mailcap entries that they may paste into their mailcap
_and_ a repository (or pointers) to the client software that these
filters require.  They will alose need to set autoview for these doc types
in their muttrc.

If anyone is interested in mailing their favourite viewing filters, that
would be nice.

Here is what I currently have for documents:
application/msword;   /usr/local/bin/mswordview %s -o - --nocredits|\
/usr/local/bin/html2ascii; lynx %s; copiousoutput
text/ms-rtf;      /usr/local/bin/rtfreader %s; copiousoutput
text/rtf;      /usr/local/bin/rtfreader %s; copiousoutput
text/html; lynx -dump -force_html %s ;copiousoutput


I also have a wp6 filter but not in open source.

Looking particularly for filter procedure that will auto-unzip zipped attachments
and send the filtered contwnts to the mutt viewer.


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