[1944] in athena10
Re: mutt config
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Sun Mar 29 16:00:18 2009
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 15:59:13 -0400
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Price <price@MIT.EDU>
Cc: debathena@MIT.EDU
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Greg Price <price@MIT.EDU> wrote on Sat, 28 Mar 2009
at 23:01:51 -0400 in <20090329030151.GA21933@vinegar-pot.mit.edu>:
> - possibly set up auto_view
> In my .muttrc I have
> auto_view text/html application/msword application/vnd.ms-word application/pdf
I think this would be a mistake. I like to have to hit 'v' RET before an
external viewer is launched. Except when I know I'm dealing with a lot
of html email, in which case I'll set auto_view.
I find it helps keep my email reading nimble and fast.
I agree having the mailcap entries is good though.
--jhawk
> This makes a lot of email much handier to read, like in other common
> mail clients. I have also a ~/.mailcap that identifies lynx --dump,
> antiword, and pdftotext respectively to turn files of these types
> into text; Debian manages already an /etc/mailcap so that this may
> be superfluous. We ought to pull each of these programs in in
> -extra-software-nox. Possibly we want to set up mutt to use them.
