On Sat, Sep 05, 2026 at 02:05:10PM -0500, Ranjan Maitra via Mutt-users wrote: > > I get a lot of messages on mutt, and they are increasingly now HTML > messages (largely coming From people perhaps using a web browser). > Now, I would not like to be seen using a browser to send or read email > messages, but I can not and should not control my senders' habits. > What are the best ways to read such email messages in mutt?
Aside from the other stuff mentioned, this may help _some_ of the time. That will let mutt prefer the text/plain part of multipart/alternative messages. alternative_order text/plain text/enriched text/html (however, sometimes this will also mean you get no text or mangled text if senders don't configure the plaintext portion correctly). I do something similar to other users in my mailcap: text/html; w3m -dump %s; nametemplate=%s.html; copiousoutput w
