On 2008-05-19, Gary Funck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 05/19/08 15:04:04, Gary Johnson wrote: > > > What sort of mutt magic do I need to add that will > > > cause this inline HTML message to be converted, > > > and displayed as text? > > > > You need to have this line in your muttrc: > > > > auto_view text/html > > Gary, thanks. Interestingly, although auto_view > is described in the docs: > http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/manual-5.html#ss5.4 > it isn't listed in the /etc/Muttrc file. > > I stumbled onto this setting: > > # set implicit_autoview=no > # > # Name: implicit_autoview > # Type: boolean > # Default: no > # > # > # If set to ``yes'', mutt will look for a a mailcap entry with the > # copiousoutput flag set for every MIME attachment it doesn't have > # an internal viewer defined for. If such an entry is found, mutt will > # use the viewer defined in that entry to convert the body part to text > # form. > > If I set implicit_autoview=yes, it seems to do > the expected thing. Is one method recommended > over the other?
In most cases, it probably makes more sense to use implicit_autoview. Otherwise, you have to use auto_view to tell mutt about every content-type for which your mailcap file has an in-line viewing rule. That seems like an unnecessary duplication of information. The only situation I can think of in which you might want to use auto_view instead would be, as the mutt manual suggests, where you want to add or remove content-types from the autoview list at run time, perhaps because certain large attachments might take a long time to convert to text. Regards, Gary
