OK, I have given up trying to get elinks to display an HTML E-Mail nicely via "auto_view text/html", even with the latest elinks and using -dump-color-mode the result is still rubbish compared with running elinks 'manually' via v[iew] and selecting the part of the message to display with elinks in interactive mode.
While w3m via "auto_view text/html" does give me a slightly better result than elinks it lacks display of HTML font colours and that means it's little use to me because many messages I receive are chunks of error logs with important parts highlighted with colour. So ...... Can I automate the process of running elinks interactively on the HTML part of a message? A macro to do some of it is easy enough but how do I get the macro to move down to the [first] HTML part of a message automatically? -- Chris Green