Mailcap Configuration: Setting MIME type Handlers
Setting up mailcap to auto view HTML files for mutt
Normally your /etc/mailcap file has relatively sensible defaults, but:
Elinks
If you like ELinks, put the following lines in your ~/.mailcap file to view HTML files:
text/html; /usr/bin/elinks -force-html '%s'; needsterminal; description=HTML Text; nametemplate=%s.html
text/html; /usr/bin/elinks -force-html -dump '%s'; copiousoutput; description=HTML Text; nametemplate=%s.html
text/html; /usr/bin/elinks -force-html -dump '%s'; copiousoutput; description=HTML Text; nametemplate=%s.html
Links
If you like links, put the following lines in your ~/.mailcap file to view HTML files:
text/html; /usr/bin/links '%s'; needsterminal; description=HTML Text; nametemplate=%s.html
text/html; /usr/bin/links -dump '%s'; copiousoutput; description=HTML Text; nametemplate=%s.html
text/html; /usr/bin/links -dump '%s'; copiousoutput; description=HTML Text; nametemplate=%s.html
Lynx
If you like lynx, put the following lines in your ~/.mailcap file to view HTML files:
text/html; /usr/bin/lynx '%s'; needsterminal; description=HTML Text; nametemplate=%s.html
text/html; /usr/bin/lynx -dump '%s'; copiousoutput; description=HTML Text; nametemplate=%s.html
text/html; /usr/bin/lynx -dump '%s'; copiousoutput; description=HTML Text; nametemplate=%s.html
Last modified: 24 November 2005