On Jo, 26 mar 20, 03:03:55, Russell L. Harris wrote: > At the moment I am running neo-mutt on Debian 9. Once or twice a day > I receive a HTML message, typically with a PDF file as an attachment. > Picking out and viewing the links and attachments always is a hassle, > and sometimes is rather difficult.
Opening pdfs in a reader is trivial with mutt. Just press 'v' and then 'Return' on the pdf attachment. It should be opened in your default pdf viewer. This should work also for 'html' parts to be opened in your default browser. I'm assuming you already tried urlview and / or having the html mails rendered with some text browser (I'm using w3m). URLs: install urlview and press Ctrl-b to select the url you want (will be passed to your default browser) HTML rendering: install w3m and add 'auto_view text/html' to your muttrc. You might also want to set 'alternative_order' to your preference (I have it set to prefer text over html as I'm using mutt mostly to read Debian lists). > Rather than hassle with mutt, I hoped to install an auxiliary mail > client with GUI (such as Thunderbird) with which I could open such > messages, view the links, and print the attachments. As per your other message you are using getmail to download everything via POP3 to a local Maildir folder. This is important information! > But Thunderbird is demanding the URLs of POP and SMPT servers, and I > do not wish to allow Thunderbird to mess around with my mail, other > than viewing specific messages. There surely are ways to skip the wizard. The only question remains whether Thunderbird can access Maildirs directly. I would have suggested Claws Mail if it had support for Maildir (as far as I recall the plugin was buggy and unmaintained). Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser
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