Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 09:26:54 -0700
From: Daniel James <djames @ serv.net>
Subject: Re: cut the HTML crap?

On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 11:55:10AM +0100, Tony Bassette wrote:

> Daniel James <djames @ serv.net> wrote:
> > Anyone know if there is an mime/html plug-in for mutt that'll filter that
> > crap out???  ;-)
> 
> 	I never heard of a thing like that, anyway if you find one let me 
> 	know :)

For those Microsoft slaves out there, you can ignore this message.

For the rest of us, I did find out how to read html attachments using mutt
(or any other Unix mail client that knows how to use the .mailcap file).

Edit your ~/.mailcap file (or create one) and put the following line in
it:
text/html; lynx -force_html %s; needsterminal

When you go to view html crap, it'll fire up lynx and view the html
attachment that way, preserving links and using as much of the formatting
as your terminal supports.

It won't filter out embedded html from a mime type of text/plain but it
will handle the text/html mime type now.

Hope that helps!!!