On 5/10/08, Chris G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 10:00:08AM +0200, Ionel Mugurel Ciobica wrote: > > On 10-05-2008, at 10h 26'28", hce wrote about "htmlview" > > > Hi, > > > > > > I've set mutt in two machines, one in FC6 and another in Debian. The > > > FC6 installed htmlview, the FC6 mutt automatically launchs a brower > > > for viewing html emails. In Debian, I could not find htmlview package > > > for that feature. What package should I install in Debian to get > > > automatically launch a brower to view HTML emails like it in FC6? > > > > > > > What is "FC6"? Did you try to use alien to convert that package from > > this "FC6" distribution (if it is a Linux disto) into a debian package? > > > > It's Fedora Core 6 I assume (a fairly old Fedora version, we're at > Fedora 9 now, having lost the 'Core').
Yes, it is an old Fedora Core 6. > htmlview is, as far as I can tell from recently looking into it, a > RedHat/Fedora script which does various convolutions to decide how to > try and display your HTML E-Mail (like it checks for X, then a GUI > browser, then a text mode browser, etc., etc.). Does that mean it is not the mutt feature, rather the FC specific? How can I make Debian work to display HTML emails the same way as FC6 does? > > What is the outcome of this command in a terminal: > > echo $BROWSER > > > > Do you have an entry "text/html" in your /etc/mailcap or ~/.mailcap? > > > > Quite, much better without htmlview and doing it the 'user driven' way > that gives you what you specify rather than what the distribution > guesses you might want. Would you please explain more what is the "user driver" way to achive that? Thanks Chris. Kind Regards.
