>To answer my own question, mhshow can be customized to use the user's >preferred mail reader. Ken mentioned w3m with display_link_number. I >use firefox, I find that its performance on a modern machine with an SSD >drive is adequate.
I think a BIG problem with this is that doesn't get you the "complete" message. The main issue here is embedded images with Content-ID URLs; in _theory_ I suppose you could write out the embedded images as files and rewrite the HTML content to point to those local files, but that just seems fraught and fragile. Another issue I personally run into is I occasonally get S/MIME messages I have to decrypt and that basically needs the whole message as well (in a perfect world nmh would handle those natively and that is on my list, but that list is long and sadly I don't have the time right now to work on that list). I know that many times just viewing the HTML content sans images is sufficient, but I've certainly run into situations where it isn't. --Ken
