Quoth Christian Ebert on Saturday, 04 September 2010:
> * Charles Jie on Saturday, September 04, 2010 at 18:40:43 +0800
> > I've been using mutt for 7 years. From time to time, such idea may flash
> > in my brain.
> > 
> >    I can read most of my daily mail with mutt without problem.
> > 
> >    But sometimes some friends may send me an html mail with pretty rich
> >    inline images. Such embedded images need to be seen in right
> >    context (there are related text arround them).
> > 
> >    My current practice is bouncing the mail to another user in my linux
> >    box, and launch Thunderbird to get and read it.
> > 
> > I'm wondering if it is possible for my mutt to copy the message to a
> > temporary mbox file, and launch a GUI mail viewer to view it. (the way a
> > little like what we do about attachment)
> > 
> >    I've checked Thunderbird's command line usage. It accepts a URL
> >    (thunderbird -mail URL) but it doesn't treat it as mbox (but raw
> >    text).
> > 
> >    Any idea or experience?
> 
> Shameless plug:
> 
> If you're not afraid of Python, you could try viewhtmlmsg of my
> muttils bundle. It seems to do what you want.
> 
> $ viewhtmlmsg -h
> Usage: viewhtmlmsg [options]
> 
> Displays html message read from stdin.  $BROWSER environment may be overridden
> with option "-b".
> 
> Options:
>   --version             show program's version number and exit
>   -h, --help            show this help message and exit
>   -s, --safe            view html w/o loading remote files
>   -k KEEP, --keep=KEEP  remove temporary files after KEEP seconds (0 for
>                         keeping files)
>   -b APP, --browser=APP
>                         prefer browser APP over $BROWSER environment
> 
> But it is mainly meant to be used from within Mutt via a macro:
> 
> # call viewhtmlmsg from macro
> macro index,pager <F7> "\
> <enter-command> set my_wait_key=\$wait_key wait_key=no<enter>\
> <pipe-message>viewhtmlmsg<enter>\
> <enter-command> set wait_key=\$my_wait_key &my_wait_key<enter>\
> " "view HTML in browser"
> 
> macro index,pager <F8> "\
> <enter-command> set my_wait_key=\$wait_key wait_key=no<enter>\
> <pipe-message>viewhtmlmsg -s<enter>\
> <enter-command> set wait_key=\$my_wait_key &my_wait_key<enter>\
> " "view HTML (safe) in browser"
> 
> 
> c
> -- 
> Python Mutt utilities --->> http://www.blacktrash.org/hg/muttils/

That's pretty cool.  It looks though like it doesn't accept a shell
wrapper for the browser:

viewhtmlmsg -b browser

where browser is a shell script as follows:

#!/bin/sh
if RunningX
then
   firefox $*
   xdotool key super+3
   xdotool keyup super
else
   w3m -t text/html $*
fi

It appears from debugging that we never even get into this script, yet no
error is generated.  Same result if I put the full path on the script.

Works great with just 'viewhtmlmsg -b firefox' though, and the odd thing
is that 'firefox' is a shell script in /usr/local/bin.

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