On Saturday, 09 February 2013 at 13:15, Gary Johnson wrote: > On 2013-02-08, Eric Smith wrote: > > Hi. > > > > (For those deeply offended by manifestations of html in emails, > > please look away now). > > > > I mainly receive email from non-technical people. Recently, > > while in the chaos ahead of a deadline I missed some > > important email where answers to my questions where inserted > > inline in a red color. > > > > I have never managed to render color in html email, how is this > > possible? > > This is a function of the external program used to render HTML as > text. The two that seem to be the most popular, lynx and w3m, don't > seem to do this, but elinks does. > > So, all you should have to do is set your mailcap file to use elinks > for text/html and configure elinks to use 256 colors. While running > elinks, type <esc> to see the menu bar, then go to "Setup menu" -> > "Terminal options" and select under "Color mode"->"256 color". > > I've often wondered if this was possible, but never investigated it > very deeply. Your question piqued my curiosity, so I searched a > little and just discovered that elinks could do this. I've verified > its behavior on a few web sites, but not from within mutt. Let us > know if this works for you.
Elinks does work fine to view attachments in color. You can't get color when autoviewing though -- in this case, the elinks output is recolorized by the pager using color body rules, which mangle the underlying color.
