access links in mail body

Hi,

how can I access links in mail bodys to display
them in e.g. opera browser?

tia
Ekkard

ekkard gerlach <jack@aiai.de> schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> how can I access links in mail bodys to display
> them in e.g. opera browser?
>
> tia
> Ekkard

Hello Ekkard,

There is a very nice tool called "urlview".
The programm can be found here:
ftp://ftp.mutt.org/pub/mutt/contrib/urlview-0.9.tar.gz

Olivier
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ekkard gerlach wrote:
> how can I access links in mail bodys to display
> them in e.g. opera browser?

some further explaination what I want: I want to select one of the
links (e.g. http://www.xyz.com/abc ) in the text in the
mail body and transfer them to opera browser and make
opera to start the URL.

thx, Ekkard

ekkard gerlach <jack@aiai.de> wrote:
> ekkard gerlach wrote:
> > how can I access links in mail bodys to display
> > them in e.g. opera browser?
>
> some further explaination what I want: I want to select one of the
> links (e.g. http://www.xyz.com/abc ) in the text in the
> mail body and transfer them to opera browser and make
> opera to start the URL.
>
It's called cut and paste isn't it? Seriously it's only a double
click followed by a click and a CR, how much easier do you want it to
be? (On my system even the double click is actually a single click of
another button).

--
Chris Green

usenet@isbd.co.uk wrote:
> ekkard gerlach <jack@aiai.de> wrote:
>
>>ekkard gerlach wrote:
>>
>>>how can I access links in mail bodys to display
>>>them in e.g. opera browser?
>>
>>some further explaination what I want: I want to select one of the
>>links (e.g. http://www.xyz.com/abc ) in the text in the
>>mail body and transfer them to opera browser and make
>>opera to start the URL.
>>

urlview works fine, thank you Olivier.

> It's called cut and paste isn't it? Seriously it's only a double
> click followed by a click and a CR, how much easier do you want it to
> be? (On my system even the double click is actually a single click of
> another button).

Mr. Anonymous, I think you haven't worked much with URLs so far, isn't?
How do you handle links with about 150 chars, e.g. from ebay? Mutt
wraps the links using a "+" at the end, a double klick marks the "+"
but not the next (wrapped) line! Don't think that every workstation
hast a 19 inch monitor and everybody likes very small chars (high
resolution)so that 150chars or more fit into one line.

BTW: you seem to be a mouse fan!? Why do you use mutt and not a
graphical MUA like kmail?

Ekkard

ekkard gerlach <jack@aiai.de> wrote:
>
> Mr. Anonymous, I think you haven't worked much with URLs so far, isn't?
> How do you handle links with about 150 chars, e.g. from ebay? Mutt
> wraps the links using a "+" at the end, a double klick marks the "+"
> but not the next (wrapped) line! Don't think that every workstation
> hast a 19 inch monitor and everybody likes very small chars (high
> resolution)so that 150chars or more fit into one line.
>
> BTW: you seem to be a mouse fan!? Why do you use mutt and not a
> graphical MUA like kmail?
>
Why am I "Mr. Anonymous"? :-) My name is in my sig and the
Reply-to: address is valid and will get to me.

I've "worked with URLs" as much as most people I suspect since I started
using the 'net in its very early days (when there weren't URLs really).

I run all my terminal windows at 80 columns regardless of screen
resolution to conform with Usenet and E-mail guidelines and netiquette.
It's GUI users who more often exceed sensible widths. If I have a
nice 19" screen (as I have at home) I have two 80 column windows side
by side, very useful at times.

OK, long URLs may cause problems but it's not *that* often that I get
a longer than one line one that I want to copy and I just concatenate
the bits. Depending on the terminal emulator this may even work
without any effort on my part, some terminals *know* the line is
wrapped and copy the whole lot.

My mutt doesn't wrap the long links with a "+" at the end, I suspect
that may be your terminal rather than mutt. I simply select the whole
lot and paste it into the browser address and it works. Thus there
isn't really a problem with long URLs in mutt as long as your terminal
wraps them correctly/sensibly.

I use mutt because it's an excellent MUA that I can use remotely via
an SSH connection. Thus I can read my mail from anywhere, home, work,
wherever. I could use IMAP but I find that a local mutt via an SSH
connection is smoother and easier.

--
Chris Green

usenet@isbd.co.uk wrote:
> ekkard gerlach <jack@aiai.de> wrote:
>
>>Mr. Anonymous, I think you haven't worked much with URLs so far, isn't?
>>How do you handle links with about 150 chars, e.g. from ebay? Mutt
>>wraps the links using a "+" at the end, a double klick marks the "+"
>>but not the next (wrapped) line! Don't think that every workstation
>>hast a 19 inch monitor and everybody likes very small chars (high
>>resolution)so that 150chars or more fit into one line.
>>
>>BTW: you seem to be a mouse fan!? Why do you use mutt and not a
>>graphical MUA like kmail?
>>
>
> Why am I "Mr. Anonymous"? :-) My name is in my sig and the
> Reply-to: address is valid and will get to me.

Netscape newsreader doesn't show reply-to :-(

> My mutt doesn't wrap the long links with a "+" at the end, I suspect
> that may be your terminal rather than mutt. I simply select the whole
> lot and paste it into the browser address and it works. Thus there

How do you select the whole line when the line disappears on the right
side? With the mouse in a X linux surface its not possible, how do
you do it?

> I use mutt because it's an excellent MUA that I can use remotely via
I agree!
> an SSH connection. Thus I can read my mail from anywhere, home, work,
> wherever. I could use IMAP but I find that a local mutt via an SSH
> connection is smoother and easier.
I do the same!

bye
Ekkard

ekkard gerlach <jack@aiai.de> wrote:
> ekkard gerlach wrote:
>> how can I access links in mail bodys to display
>> them in e.g. opera browser?
>
> some further explaination what I want: I want to select one of the
> links (e.g. http://www.xyz.com/abc ) in the text in the
> mail body and transfer them to opera browser and make
> opera to start the URL.

You might try using w3m instead of urlview. It lets you see the
links in the context of the message. See

http://www.spocom.com/users/gjohnson/mutt/#w3m

HTH,
Gary

ekkard gerlach <jack@aiai.de> wrote:
> usenet@isbd.co.uk wrote:

[...]

>> My mutt doesn't wrap the long links with a "+" at the end, I suspect
>> that may be your terminal rather than mutt. I simply select the whole
>> lot and paste it into the browser address and it works.

,----[ manpage ]
| markers
|
| Type: boolean
| Default: yes
|
| Controls the display of wrapped lines in the internal pager. If set, a
| ``+'' marker is displayed at the beginning of wrapped lines. Also see
| the `` $smart_wrap'' variable.
| ^^^^^^^^^^
`----

Should run - not tested.

> How do you select the whole line when the line disappears on the right
> side? With the mouse in a X linux surface its not possible, how do
> you do it?

See above?

>> I use mutt because it's an excellent MUA that I can use remotely via
> I agree!

The best one...

> bye
> Ekkard

Servus + bye
Dietrich

Gary Johnson <garyjohn@spk.agilent.com> schrieb:
>
> You might try using w3m instead of urlview. It lets you see the
> links in the context of the message. See
>
> http://www.spocom.com/users/gjohnson/mutt/#w3m
>
> HTH,
> Gary

Hello Gary,

Nice trick, works really fine. Thank you Gary!

Oliver
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