[h43z]

Mutt makes writing/reading/searching/managing email just really fast. Mutt also allows to pass the message body to an external program. This helps for formatting HTML mails. This is a snippet from my .mailcap file which renders HTML mail through lynx.

  text/html; lynx -dump -force_html %s;  needsterminal; copiousoutput

[baldfat]

I output my mutt to w3m with using feh for images. Not always the right tool for the job but it is an easy way to find out if it is.