Going GUI...er

[Mark H. Wood]

On Sat, Apr 04, 2020 at 07:18:42PM +0200, steve wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Le 04-04-2020, à 09:41:59 +0200, Vegard Svanberg a écrit :
> 
> >Hi,
> >
> >I love Mutt.
> 
> Me too.
> 
> >However, I'm increasingly finding myself having to resort to various
> >tricks to deal with HTML only emails (with picture attachments),
> >calendar invites, and other oddities and awkward stuff people send.
> 
> I can display images, read pdf's, etc… but one thing I never managed to do is
> open an html file containing images. I mean, I can send the html part to
> firefox but the images don't follow.
> 
> How do you guys cope with that?

In my ~/.mailcap:

image/gif; \
        gpicview %s; \
        print=lpr %s;
image/jpeg; \
        gpicview %s; \
        print=lpr %s;
image/png; \
        gpicview %s; \
        print=lpr %s;

Then open the message, hit 'v' to view the structure, select an image
and hit Enter.

This works with actual attachments.  Some emails (usuall SPAM) have
only links to images.  For those, I first read the reasonable messages
using Mutt, and then make a second pass using Thunderbird to read the
unreasonable ones that I didn't just discard in pass 1.

If the only text in a message is "you need to view this in HTML," I
typically just hit 'd'.

-- 
Mark H. Wood
Lead Technology Analyst

University Library
Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis
755 W. Michigan Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202
317-274-0749
www.ulib.iupui.edu
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