From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 30 13:02:59 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5551016A403 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 13:02:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from frank@esperance-linux.co.uk) Received: from mailout.zetnet.co.uk (mailout.zetnet.co.uk [194.247.47.231]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D74643D55 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 13:02:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from frank@esperance-linux.co.uk) Received: from irwell.zetnet.co.uk ([194.247.47.48] helo=zetnet.co.uk) by mailout.zetnet.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1GeWn7-0003wi-62 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 13:03:01 +0000 Received: from esperance.zetnet.co.uk (54-144.adsl.zetnet.co.uk [194.247.54.144]) by zetnet.co.uk (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-2) with SMTP id k9UD2uCj000676 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 13:02:56 GMT Received: (qmail 94865 invoked by uid 1001); 30 Oct 2006 13:02:50 -0000 From: "Frank Shute" Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 13:02:50 +0000 To: Gary Kline Message-ID: <20061030130250.GA94669@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk> References: <45451426.4080003@thought.org> <20061030004455.GA87762@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk> <20061030030050.GC39711@thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061030030050.GC39711@thought.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE i386 X-Organisation: 'Esperance Linux' X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (zetnet.co.uk [194.247.46.1]); Mon, 30 Oct 2006 13:02:57 +0000 (GMT) Cc: Frank Shute , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: things-Mail: update X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Frank Shute List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 13:02:59 -0000 On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 07:00:50PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 12:44:55AM +0000, Frank Shute wrote: > > > > You can get mutt to launch embedded URLs in a browser by installing > > urlview and setting up your mailcap. Just thought I'd mention it. > > > > > > > WOW! Where is urlview and what exactly do I add to ~/.mailcap?? Urlview is in ports: textproc/urlview Looking at the urlview manpage, it looks like I was mistaken and it has nothing to do with mailcap but you need the following in ~/.urlview: COMMAND /usr/X11R6/bin/firefox %s Then when you hit Ctl-b in mutt you're presented with a list of pages extracted from the e-mail that you can then scroll through and open in the browser. I don't think I had to do anything to my .muttrc Voila! No more cut and pasting - took me years before I found it :( As for mailcap, it's useful if you get attachments to your mail so at a minimum you want this in ~/.mailcap text/html;/usr/X11R6/bin/firefox %s application/pdf;acroread %s application/msword;antiword %s | less application/postscript;gview %s image/gif;xv %s image/jpeg;xv %s image/png;xv %s Then mutt can deal with the attachment appropriately. > > thanks much, No worries. > > gary > > PS: I wish there were a GUI/HTML-version of mutt that uses > vi and,more imporatant, save mail in ~/Mail .... *but*.... > ******. I prefer programs that can work without X and I run qmail so prefer Maildirs. You could probably get mutt to use gvim as an editor if that's any help. You should be also able to get your browser to use mutt for mailto: in html pages. I can tell you how to do that for firefox, I think. Another thing to get going with mutt (if you're dealing with a lot of mail) is procmail. You can set up a bunch of maildirs and sort your mail into each one to then be read by mutt at your leisure. -- Frank echo "f r a n k @ e s p e r a n c e - l i n u x . c o . u k" | sed 's/ //g' --->PGP keyID: 0x10BD6F4B<---