[svlug] HTML mail from the commandline

[Akkana Peck]

This is going to sound like a strange question, but do any of you
mutt/pine/etc users know of a way to send HTML mail with images?

I'm a mutt user, and 99.999% of the time I'm happy sending plaintext
mail. But once in a blue moon, I want to send an HTML message with
embedded images. I can write up the HTML and preview it in a
browser, but I don't know of a way of emailing it.

I've tried a handful of ways of sending HTML from mutt, attaching
the HTML and images and editing the attachment list in various ways,
but when I send them to my husband's Mac they all look like a blank
message with an HTML attachment (yes, even though there were no
plaintext parts of the message), not a message with inline images.

I'd rather not have to configure a full GUI mailer, setting up SMTP
server, giving it a dummy POP/IMAP server, and letting it set up a
local folder store I'll never use, all to send one message.

Is there a standalone Linux program that can do this? Or a GUI
mailer that can send a message without needing a lot of configuration
besides the outgoing SMTP server?

        ...Akkana