Dealing with URLs in Messages

Many messages have URLs embedded in the text. Urlview is the right tool to deal with them. You can configure it to launch a graphical browser like Firefox, Opera, or Konqueror if you have the X Window system running and launch lynx or links if you don't. Fortunately it's easy for urlview to distinguish whether or not you're using X and proceed smoothly from there.

First, install urlview. Second, add the following lines to your .muttrc:

macro index \cb |urlview\n 'call urlview to extract URLs out of a message'

The macro above sets the key binding control-B to launch urlview (more about macros in section 4.4). Try it once and you'll see how nice a system it is.