Vegard Svanberg wrote: > Hi, > > I love Mutt. > > 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. > > My Holy Grail, which would be a native Mutt GUI client, I guess, doesn't > seem to exist. > > I don't know how I would survive with a regular GUI client like > Thunderbird or Evolution. I've tried, but they all suck. Mutt's > keybindings, search and navigation features are irreplaceable. > > Currently I'm running Mutt from a machine which I ssh into from 5 other > computers I use frequently (IMAP backend - self-hosted). > > Suggestions? What does everyone else do? > > -- > Vegard Svanberg <veg...@svanberg.no> [*Takapa@IRC (EFnet)]
I use mutt over ssh to read mail on a virtual machine out there somewhere that is also my mail server, so I can't really "display" anything therei (X11 not installed). For most HTML emails, lynx is enough: .mutt.mailcap: text/html; lynx -dump %s; copiousoutput; description=HTML Message; nametemplate=%s.html But when it's not, I have a macro that bounces the email to a local IMAP account: .muttrc: macro index BR bbounce.raf....@virt.raf.org\ny and it's fetched by Thunderbird on my laptop. Once read, I delete it in Thunderbird. I concluded that that was the easiest thing to do in my environment and it means that hardly any emails make it to my actual laptop, only the ones I choose to allow there, and they're always work-related ones that I've already seen and know to be legitimate. For other document attachments, I use various mailcap filters to render things as text such as catdoc, xls2csv, mutt.octet.filter and mutt.vcard.filter by David A Pearson, vcalendar-filter by Martyn Smith etc. The vcalendar-filter is very useful for me these days. In my younger, more fanatical days, I wrote a tool (textmail) to convert everything to plain text as it arrived to keep my mailbox small. That wouldn't help you. :-) cheers, raf
