Re: Suggestions for mail client

On Saturday, September 21st, 2024 at 3:24 AM, Vitor Sonoki <vitorsonoki.0a04@yahoo.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> On Sat, 21 Sep 2024 00:00:55 +0000
> Joe B josef.c.bailey@protonmail.com wrote:
> 
> > I would like to use neomutt/mutt as my main email client but my family
> > still sends attachments and html emails. can mutt/neomutt open them ?
> > if so how or could you point me somehwere that can help.
> 
> 
> You can install www/elinks (pkg install elinks), a text-based browser
> that can "dump" the output of an HTML message rendered as plain text
> straight into the terminal. Then you can add a mailcap entry
> (~/.mutt/mailcap) like this:
> 
> text/html; /usr/local/bin/elinks %s ; copiousoutput
> 
> And then mutt will automatically invoke elinks and render HTML emails
> straight into the mutt viewport. No need to press 'v' and 'm' or open an
> external browser or anything. It's very natural, quick, and I use it in
> mutt all the time.
> 
> You can send attachments with mutt by pressing 'a' after composing the
> text of your message.

Thanks for the feedback.

I will try it as soon as i get next to the laptop

Thanks

Joe