Creating HTML emails with mutt

[martin f krafft]

Regarding the following, written by "John Long" on 2019-10-31 at 10:17 Uhr +0000:
>> The approach Kevin proposed is completely HTML-agnostic and leaves it 
>> up to the user to provide an external tool that provides the HTML. 
>> Mutt then just does the required MIME-handling, which is clearly 
>> within the domain of a MUA.
>
>I thought there was already the capability in mutt to pipe email to 
>another application?

Sure, you can filter your text/plain part through aspell. But you 
cannot currently create multipart/alternative emails.

>> There is no GUI requirement in any of this.
>
>I meant to say that HTML email becomes much less useful and in some 
>cases worthless without a GUI. You can't display pictures or see 
>advertising links on the console. I have tried to use various console 
>browsers like links and lynx and I'm unable to use them with almost any 
>webpage.

So you'll have your client configured to prefer text/plain when 
given the choice between alternatives. Which mutt already supports.

Can we please move on?

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