sylpheed txt/html mime

[kitsune]

On Tue, 8 Jul 2003 18:36:57 +0200
dick hoogendijk <dick at nagual.st> wrote:

> Reading about sylpheed on this mailinglist I got curious.
> My CLI favo client is mutt, but in X I use kmail. It starts rather slow,
> 'cause I'm not running kde but fvwm. It *does* show however my received
> html E-mails (newspapers and so on).
> 
> After some googling I get the impression that sylpheed won't show html
> emails. All I found was sylpheed-claws (also without html email show).
> 
> Question: is it possible to show my html emails using sylpheed? If so,
> how? Do I need to set some mimetype file. I know I can read html with
> mutt, using lynx, making some statement in .muttrc
> How about it with sylpheed? It's good looking and fast. I do hope to get
> rid of the kmail needs ;-))

it is easy.... it will show html emails...  it just shows the text portions,
thankfully... then if for some reason I want to see what it would look like
normally, all I have to do is tell it feed it to some browser... which can be
set up under the configuration...