Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 00:11:46 -0600 From: Glenn Johnson <gljohns@bellsouth.net> To: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: HTML in mutt (was Re: [FYI] Oracle on FreeBSD: official response) Message-ID: <19990127001146.A9899@gforce.johnson.home> In-Reply-To: <19990126191500.Z66239@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 07:15:00PM %2B1030 References: <19990125113352.A28261@ucb.crimea.ua> <19990126105355.Q36690@freebie.lemis.com> <19990125164657.A28375@mooseriver.com> <19990126100930.A18505@ucb.crimea.ua> <19990126191500.Z66239@freebie.lemis.com>
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On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 07:15:00PM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Tuesday, 26 January 1999 at 10:09:30 +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > I don't use Netscape. Like you both, I use `mutt' (in the ports). > > Its autoview feature and `lynx' (also in the ports) allow me to > > view HTML. > > > > To view HTMLs in the `mutt' you should: > > > > 1. install `lynx' > > 2. add the following line to ~/.muttrc: > > auto_view text/html > > 3. create ~/.mailcap with the following line: > > text/html; lynx -dump -force_html %s; copiousoutput > > > > Is it too much? ;-) > > No, it's not enough if I send you an attachment with graphics. That's > one of the problems: there are too many possible incompatibilities. > See http://www.lemis.com/email.html for more possibilities. But since > we're talking about mutt, you might prefer this approach: > > 1. Install netscrape. > 2. Add the following line to ~/.muttrc: > > auto_view text/html > > 3. Add the following single line to /usr/local/etc/mailcap: > > text/html; cp %s /var/tmp && netscape -remote "openURL(file:/var/tmp/`basename %s`)" || netscape /var/tmp/`basename %s` > I have been using lynx to view HTML in mutt. After seeing the above tip for netscape I thought I would give it a try. If I go to the attachment viewer all is well, I can launch netscape to view the HTML; but if I try to use auto_view as described above, mutt tells me it can't find the mailcap entry. What might be wrong? Thanks. -- Glenn Johnson gljohns@bellsouth.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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