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Text-Based User Interfaces (TUI; CLI)
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Good idea to open HTML attachments in an isolated browser. I normally open them in lynx but sometimes it doesn't work as intended.
For any (neo)mutt users out there, you can configure this quite nicely by defining your MIME handlers in
~/.mailcap
:Then bind your Enter key to open attachments via mailcap:
In neomutt I ended up customizing the print function. So if I “print” an attachment, it launches a script that runs
wkhtmltopdf
insidefirejail --net=none
followed by rendering in Firefox (also insidefirejail --net=none
), so I get an instant isolated firefox view as well as a PDF.I’m happy with that replacement because I would never want to send something straight to a printer anyway. I would want to preview before printing. And the print function is documented right on the screen when looking at attachments, so no key binding to try to remember.