Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 13:25:12 -0800 From: Rem P Roberti <remegius@comcast.net> To: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> Cc: Frank Shute <frank@esperance-linux.co.uk>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: things-Mail: update Message-ID: <45466DB8.2080807@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <20061030203952.GA57418@thought.org> References: <45451426.4080003@thought.org> <20061030004455.GA87762@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk> <20061030030050.GC39711@thought.org> <20061030130250.GA94669@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk> <20061030203952.GA57418@thought.org>
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Gary Kline wrote: > On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 01:02:50PM +0000, Frank Shute wrote: > >> 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. >>>> >>>> <snip> >>>> >>>> >>> 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 >> >> > > > After messing with this for an hour it finally works. My initial > fumbles were that the scipt in /usr/local/bin, url_handler.sh > defaults to netscape; then lynx. > ... . > > Anyway, one detail is that whereis finds mozilla and firefox in > /usr/local/bin, not X11R6. So I changed both my ~/.mailcap and > /usr/local/bin/url_handler:: from "netscape" to "firefox". Now > thing work as expected. With mutt, files are saved to > ~/Mail/<user>, ^b gives a list of URL's and mailto's. > > The urlview defaults are such that no ~/.urlview nor > /usr/local/etc/usrview.conf are necessary. > > gary > > >> 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 >> >> >> Whew! I finally got it working. Just made sure that the correct paths (/usr/local/bin) were listed in KDE's component chooser for both Thunderbird and Firefox. Same for 'network.protocol-handler.app.html". Rem
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