Hello all, with your hints I was able to build Mutt-1.20. successfully. I chickened out by running "apt-get build-dep mutt" as indicated in http://wiki.mutt.org/?MuttFaq/Charset. The apt-get command installed elinks on my system and now opening html-mails via the "v"-command starts elinks instead of w3m like before. I wonder where this is being determined. My mailcap has entries for w3m, elinks and lynx in this order.
BTW: encoding mysteries haven't all been solved but i am at peace for now. Applying this suggestion (from the mentioned link) to .vimrc was damaging. set encoding& " terminal charset: follows current locale set termencoding= set fileencodings= " charset auto-sensing: disabled set fileencoding& " auto-sensed charset of current buffer It resulted in a replacement of lots of umlauts with questionmarks in innoscent files(!) jan
