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Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 19:15:00 +1030
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Josef Grosch <jgrosch@mooseriver.com>,
        FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: [FYI] Oracle on FreeBSD: official response
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On Tuesday, 26 January 1999 at 10:09:30 +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 04:46:58PM -0800, Josef Grosch wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 10:53:55AM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote:
>>> On Monday, 25 January 1999 at 11:33:52 +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
>>>> Hi!
>>>>
>>>> Recently someone posted the message that, according
>>>> to Oracle Sales, Oracle for FreeBSD will be available
>>>> in the middle of February.
>>>>
>>>> Yesterday I asked Oracle Support whether they have
>>>> any plans to release FreeBSD version of Oracle Server.
>>>>
>>>> Attached are the question and the answer (HTML).
>>>
>>> Wouldn't it have been easier on people who use mailers for reading
>>> mail if you had just relayed the answer?
>
> Because it was ``official'', I don't wanted to change anything.
> I just removed HREFs and IMGs.

Sure, I don't really have any objection to that.  But it wouldn't have
done any harm to add a summary for those people who don't have HTML
mail configured.

>> Agree! The whole world does not use netscape as a mail reader. Please stop
>> sending HTML wrapped mail.
>
> I can't undestand why I should stop to do this?
>
> It seems you're lazy to make your mailer display HTML for you ;-)

As Josef points out in his reply to this message, it's not always a
question of laziness.

> 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 sent this previous line out as a single line.  If you receive it
    folded, your mailer is broken.  It must be inserted into the file
    as a single line.

Greg
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