On Wed, Nov 12, 2025 at 07:01:02AM -0800, Chris Bennett wrote: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2025 at 12:22:43PM +0100, Rene Kita wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 12, 2025 at 02:39:44AM -0800, Chris Bennett wrote: > > > I have been using Lynx fairly successfully with html attachments when > > > using ssh to run neomutt over on my server. > > > I am starting to get more html that only shows pages of css code but > > > never any usable message. Naturally, these happen to be important > > > messages. > > > Is there any fix for this problem? A different mailcap configuration or > > > a better text browser to use? Or is this just a problem without a > > > solution? > > > > Did you try with other browsers, w3m or Firefox? Without seeing the > > actual mail content it will be hard to find the cause for this. > > I am trying to avoid the PITA of moving a copy of the HTML attachment to > one of my websites in order to then access it there.
You don't need to move the attachment to a server. You could just use w3m instead of lynx or copy the attachment to your local machine and try it with Firefox. [...] > Most likely, these are just HTML pages that cannot run without JS. I am > basically asking if there is a text browser or a different setting for > lynx that can let me skip seeing mountains of CSS and quickly see that > there is nothing to see. Perhaps a filter to remove the css and then pass > it to a text browser? I'm trying to figure that out, but without such an email it's near impossible to help here.
