ok, I finally got it working right. I am using mutt and lynx Version 2.8.1rel.2
In ~/.muttrc I put: auto_view text/html text/enriched and I made a ~/.mailcap with: text/html;/usr/bin/lynx -dump -force_html %s ;copiousoutput My lynx likes -dump, not --dump and the -force_html deals with the case where the attachment filename is not .html, without it I got raw (uninterpreted) html. Now I get the attachments all nicely laid out with bold lines in between indicating the command line used to view them - sweet. (I like mutt _even_more_ now) aloha, dave