Excerpts from junk.interesting: 19-Dec-94 Re: McCoy is Right! New Mai.. wcs@anchor.ho.att.com (616)

If there were a convenient MIME viewer to pop in as my PAGER, I might have mail use it rather than less -sc, my current preference.

This is precisely what metamail is for. It's in ftp://thumper.bellcore.com/pub/nsb/mm2.7.tar.Z.