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Date:      Fri, 8 Oct 2010 07:49:49 -0500
From:      Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com>
To:        Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com>
Subject:   Re: New mutt-devel problems with text/html processing
Message-ID:  <20101008124949.GA54088@rancor.immure.com>
In-Reply-To: <20101008083107.GA80449@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>
References:  <20101007132209.GA47648@rancor.immure.com> <20101007135138.GA81306@icarus.home.lan> <20101007162243.GA48756@rancor.immure.com> <20101008083107.GA80449@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>

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On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 09:31:08AM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 11:26:06AM -0500, Bob Willcox wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 06:51:38AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> > > On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 08:22:09AM -0500, Bob Willcox wrote:
> > > > The new version of mutt-devel nolonger honors my mailcap entry to invoke lynx
> > > > when it encounters a text/html file type. Instead it simply displays the raw
> > > > html text. According to their UPDATING file, they say:
> > > > 
> > > >     "all text/* parts can be displayed inline without mailcap"
> > > > 
> > > > Which is suspiciously in the realm of the problem I'm seeing.
> > > > 
> > > > Perhaps there's now some other way of displaying text/html files w/o mailcap
> > > > and an external program that I'm missing?
> > > 
> > > Looks relevant, with a response from Michael Elkins explaining the
> > > change:
> > > 
> > > http://marc.info/?t=128477093300004&r=1&w=2
> > > 
> > > Basically, it appears that as of 1.5.21, mutt only displays text/* MIME
> > > types using its own internal engine.  If you want the old behaviour,
> > > when selecting the attachment/entry, press "m".
> > > 
> > > Personally I don't like this change, but I'll deal with it.
> > 
> > Thanks Jeremy, that was it. Guess I'll just have to get used to pressing 'm'
> > now.
> 
> I missed the beginning of this thread. I had mutt-devel until
> about a week ago, when, after some update, it became extremely
> slow. For example, using just /var/mail it would take 10 seconds
> or more to move from one message to another in index. The same
> delay for opening messages in pager. The size of messages was
> same as before, mostly 2-3 lines with occasional attachment.
> 
> Anyway, I rolled back to mutt-1.4.2.3_5, which works fine.
> 
> This has probably nothing to do with the Subject, just
> thought perhaps somebody else seen a significant slow down
> after the update?

I haven't seen this behavior. My only issue was the change in how the latest
mutt-devel handles text/* type attachements. I've seen no change in
performance.

Bob

> 
> many thanks
> anton
> Sorry if this has nothin
> > 
> > Bob
> > 
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > | Jeremy Chadwick                                   jdc@parodius.com |
> > > | Parodius Networking                       http://www.parodius.com/ |
> > > | UNIX Systems Administrator                  Mountain View, CA, USA |
> > > | Making life hard for others since 1977.              PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
> > 
> > -- 
> > Bob Willcox                A great many people think they are thinking
> > bob@immure.com             when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
> > Austin, TX                         -- William James
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Bob Willcox                A great many people think they are thinking
bob@immure.com             when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
Austin, TX                         -- William James



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