Well after digging into the mutt manual some more, it is all explained there; I had to add another line to the .mailcap with a 'copious' option and having lynx -dump to pipe it back into the mutt text viewer. The only small downside to this approach is the message comes up in plain text and not viewable HTML where you could click on links and all that but I can still do that from the attachments menu when necessary. So this actually could be the best of both worlds. All I need to do now is add some command line options to lynx to "pretty up" the text a bit like getting rid of numbered links and inline images. Thanks again, Tom for the tip. On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 11:22:34PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote: > I must have my .mailcap messed up or something. It works fine with my > previous message avout manually doing it but I can't get your > suggestion to work. I keep getting a message saying that the mailcap > entry cannot be found. Does mutt expect its mailcap entries somewhere else? > > On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 08:33:33AM -0500, Thomas Stivers wrote: > > While someone has told you how to open the html messages manually, with > > mutt you can have html messages opened by default if there is no better > > alternative. You will need to add the following lines to your .muttrc. > > > > alternative_order text/plain text/html > > auto_view text/html > > > > Isn't mutt great! > > -- > > Unix is a user friendly operating system. It just picks its friends more > > carefully than others. > > Thomas Stivers e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org gpg: 45CBBABD > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup