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ViewMailAndWThreeM

HTML messages can be viewed in VM using the Emacs/W3M package. Here are the steps to get it working. (These instructions are for VM versions 8.1 and up.)

          make clean
          make
          (add-to-list 'load-path "/absolute/path/to/emacs-w3m")
          (require 'w3m-load)

Using external browsers

Normally, W3M opens URL’s in the html pages internally. To send them to an external web browser registered in VM, use:

          (add-hook 'vm-presentation-mode-hook 
                       (lambda () 
                         (set (make-local-variable 'w3m-goto-article-function) 
                              vm-url-browser)))

Customize the variable vm-url-browser as appropriate to your needs.