[Pkg-mutt-maintainers] Bug#823971: +1

[Jan Braun]

control: retitle 823971 mutt: displays text/html raw instead of using mailcap

Eduard Bloch schrob:
> same here, the ability to read inline HTML parts without ugly
> workarounds is really missed.

There are two easy workarounds. The first is using "m".
Quoting TFM, Table 9.7. Default Attachment Menu Bindings:
 <view-mailcap> m        force viewing of attachment using mailcap
 <view-text>    T        view attachment as text
 <view-attach>  <Return> view attachment using mailcap entry if necessary
The second is setting "auto_view text/html" in your .muttrc , which
causes a rendered version of the html to be displayed instead of the raw
source.
HTH.

However, I still prefer the previous behaviour of, by default, spawning an
interactive browser for text/html. Thus I recompiled mutt 1.6.0-1 with
611410-no-implicit_autoview-for-text-html.patch , and can confirm it
builds cleanly and fixes this issue.

The patch was dropped due to dbug #816706, where Kevin McCarthy claims
 Fixed in https://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3496 3 years ago.

Unfortunately, that ticket seems to have considered only
(implicit)autoview functionality, i.e. the question whether mutt
displays the raw html or the text result of a mime rule like
 text/html; /usr/bin/elinks -force-html -dump %s; copiousoutput; ...
The debian patch goes beyond that in providing the (default) behaviour
of actually opening the html in a browser via a rule like
 text/html; /usr/bin/elinks -force-html %s; needsterminal; ...

Please consider reinstating the patch.
Thanks,
    Jan
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