Subject: Pine & HTML

From: Andrew Daviel <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 23:38:00 -0700 (PDT)

I see that Pine now handles multipart text/html messages, displaying
formatted HTML in colour. But it won't handle a straight text/html
message. Why not ? I get a few of these (spam mostly, I admit) from people
saving a few bytes by not sending any text/plain version

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Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada
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From: Rick Lewis <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 05:56:00 -0700 (MST)

Andrew,
A neat method was mentioned on another list, in which Pine invokes lynx
and lynx decodes the HTML.
If you go into the view menu using v, and hit enter on the text/html
attachment, lynx is invoked.
This method uses the .mailcap file below:
# Text/html; lynx -force_html -underscore -dump %s ; copiousoutput
text/html; lynx -force_html %s ; needsterminal

I don't know to what extent it can bemodified to use other web browsers in
other circumstances, or if there's a way to do this in PC-Pine.