Re: How to 'hook' different programs to view text/html?

[Kevin J. McCarthy]

On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 05:44:04PM +0000, Chris Green wrote:

Is there a straightforward way to do this?  It's easy enough to use a
message hook to catch the messages from the site but what do I need to
do then to convert the messages and feed them into the pager?

message-hook ~A 'unsetenv MUTT_USE_ALT_VIEWER'
message-hook ~C 'your-l...@example.com' 'setenv MUTT_USE_ALT_VIEWER yes'

In .mailcap:

text/html; altviewer %s; test=[ -n "$MUTT_USE_ALT_VIEWER" ]; copiousoutput; 
nametemplate=%s.html
text/html; lynx -dump %s; copiousoutput; nametemplate=%s.html



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Kevin J. McCarthy
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You could use the mailcap 'test=' field combined with an environment variable set/unset by the hook. Another idea might be to swap $mailcap_path to use another mailcap file for that mailing list.

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