* Charles Jie on Saturday, September 04, 2010 at 18:40:43 +0800
> I've been using mutt for 7 years. From time to time, such idea may flash
> in my brain.
>
> I can read most of my daily mail with mutt without problem.
>
> But sometimes some friends may send me an html mail with pretty rich
> inline images. Such embedded images need to be seen in right
> context (there are related text arround them).
>
> My current practice is bouncing the mail to another user in my linux
> box, and launch Thunderbird to get and read it.
>
> I'm wondering if it is possible for my mutt to copy the message to a
> temporary mbox file, and launch a GUI mail viewer to view it. (the way a
> little like what we do about attachment)
>
> I've checked Thunderbird's command line usage. It accepts a URL
> (thunderbird -mail URL) but it doesn't treat it as mbox (but raw
> text).
>
> Any idea or experience?
Shameless plug:
If you're not afraid of Python, you could try viewhtmlmsg of my
muttils bundle. It seems to do what you want.
$ viewhtmlmsg -h
Usage: viewhtmlmsg [options]
Displays html message read from stdin. $BROWSER environment may be overridden
with option "-b".
Options:
--version show program's version number and exit
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-s, --safe view html w/o loading remote files
-k KEEP, --keep=KEEP remove temporary files after KEEP seconds (0 for
keeping files)
-b APP, --browser=APP
prefer browser APP over $BROWSER environment
But it is mainly meant to be used from within Mutt via a macro:
# call viewhtmlmsg from macro
macro index,pager <F7> "\
<enter-command> set my_wait_key=\$wait_key wait_key=no<enter>\
<pipe-message>viewhtmlmsg<enter>\
<enter-command> set wait_key=\$my_wait_key &my_wait_key<enter>\
" "view HTML in browser"
macro index,pager <F8> "\
<enter-command> set my_wait_key=\$wait_key wait_key=no<enter>\
<pipe-message>viewhtmlmsg -s<enter>\
<enter-command> set wait_key=\$my_wait_key &my_wait_key<enter>\
" "view HTML (safe) in browser"
c
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Python Mutt utilities --->> http://www.blacktrash.org/hg/muttils/
