diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index e1e58e7..d6ffa33 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ There's a chance of errors if you use a slow-release distro like Ubuntu, Debian
 
 ### Optional
 
-- `w3m` - view HTML email and images in neomutt.
+- `lynx` - view HTML email in neomutt.
 - `notmuch` - index and search mail. Install it and run `notmuch setup`, tell it that your mail is in `~/.local/share/mail/` (although `mw` will do this automatically if you haven't set notmuch up before). You can run it in mutt with `ctrl-f`. Run `notmuch new` to process new mail, although the included `mailsync` script does this for you.
 - `libnotify`/`libnotify-bin` - allows notifications when syncthing mail with `mailsync`
 - `abook` - a terminal-based address book. Pressing tab while typing an address to send mail to will suggest contacts that are in your abook.
diff --git a/share/mailcap b/share/mailcap
index a265aa4..9687b75 100644
--- a/share/mailcap
+++ b/share/mailcap
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 text/plain; $EDITOR %s ;
 text/html; openfile %s ; nametemplate=%s.html
-text/html; w3m -I %{charset} -T text/html; copiousoutput;
+text/html; lynx -assume_charset=%{charset} -display_charset=utf-8 -dump %s; nametemplate=%s.html; copiousoutput;
 image/*; muttimage %s ; copiousoutput
 video/*; setsid mpv --quiet %s &; copiousoutput
 application/pdf; openfile %s ;