Opening URLs from mutt (was: Creating HTML emails with mutt)

[martin f krafft]

Regarding the following, written by "Dave Woodfall" on 2019-10-29 at 08:53 Uhr +0000:
>I deal with very long links, or long lists of links where the context 
>is lost, by opening the message in elinks, and then using elinks' 
>option to pass a link or current URL to an external application or 
>command, if elinks can't deal with it itself.  That way it's possible 
>to copy the URL into /tmp/screen-exhange, then do something in 
>screen.

Sounds like a lot of ifs and loose parts to a task that we all end 
up doing dozen times a day. A good tool would let me accomplish such 
a task without engaging my brain, and with one or two key presses, 
don't you think?

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