Replacing pine with mutt

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Since RedHat is unable to support pine, they should have extra resources
available to polish up mutt and remove any possible refutation about
mutt being a better choice.

One thing in particular is that if you install mutt and don't install
any text mode browser (e.g. lynx) then you can't view HTML emails --
you cannot even view them as raw HTML text! Normally if mutt has no
way of viewing some particular mime type then it will always have a
fallback to view as plain text, instead I get "No valid text mode
browser found" from /usr/bin/htmlview which is really annoying because
simply replacing /usr/bin/htmlview with a link to /bin/cat will
at least provide the facility of viewing HTML emails (as raw HTML
of course but better than not seeing it at all).

I suggest that without any text-mode browser installed,
/usr/bin/htmlview should fail completely and somehow mutt realises
that a failure in the translation program opens an option to fallback
to plain text. If this is too difficult then at least have
/usr/bin/htmlview revert to simple /bin/cat as a last ditch effort
(possibly with a header suggesting which packages to install, etc).

	- Tel



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