Re: [Lynx-dev] reaching gmail in basic html?

[Tim Chase]

On 2019-11-05 15:49, Karen Lewellen wrote:
> How does mutt manage the need for a browser, to follow e-mail links
> for example?

Mutt outsources the following of links to an external program.  The
typical way is to pipe the message to the "urlscan" program
(there's also a "urlview" but it lacks some of the nice features
of "urlscan").  The "urlscan" program scrapes the body of the email
(or really, any input so it's not limited to launching URLs found in
emails, but any text input) for all URLs it contains, presents them
to you with context, and lets you open them in whatever browser you
have configured, including lynx (bringing this back full-circle to
this mailing-list).

Similarly, mutt can work in conjunction with your mailcap file to
open HTML attachments (such as multi-part MIME mail messages)
directly in your browser of choice (such as lynx) or transforming the
message into a text format like "lynx -dump" produces.  This same
mailcap functionality lets you set default programs for all manner of
attachments such as PDF files (perhaps sending them through
"pdftotext" or an OCR program), MS Word files (with catdoc, docx2txt,
antiword, pandoc, etc), and all manner of other attachment-types.

-tim