On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 3:31 PM, Kyle Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sunday, September 21 at 10:14 AM, quoth hce: >> Hi, >> >> I set following definition in the muttrc on the Debian box: >> >> set implicit_autoview >> alternative_order text/plain text/html > > Okay... what does your text/html mailcap entry look like? > >> When an email contains html format, the mutt called [-- Autoview >> using /usr/bin/w3m -dump -T text/html ''/tmp/mutt.html'' --]. But >> the html file could not be loaded to the browser as following error: > > It sounds like your mailcap erroneously hardcoded the location of > temporary html files as /tmp/mutt.html, which is not what mutt uses. > >> (1) Where is the autoview configurated to call /usr/bin/w3m -dump -T >> text/html? > > It's defined in your mailcap file, either in ~/.mailcap or > /etc/mailcap. See your mailcap man page. > >> (2) Why there is no /tmp/mutt.html? I tried to use vi to open >> /tmp/mutt.html, there was no that file either. That is why caused >> the browser eror to load a non exist /tmp/mutt.html file. > > The short answer is: because there isn't *supposed* to be. > >> (3) How to fix it in muttrc? > > You can't. It has to be fixed in your mailcap. > > A correct mailcap entry should look something like this: > > text/html; w3m -dump -T text/html %s; needsterminal; copiousoutput;
That fixed the probem. Thank you so much and thanks all other responses. > Note the "%s" instead of "/tmp/mutt.html". That's so that mutt can > tell w3m where the temporary file is. It is usually something with an > unpredictable name (if it was a predictable name, it would be a > security problem), and NOT /tmp/mutt.html. > > ~Kyle > - -- > Reliability means never having to say you're sorry. > -- Dr. Daniel J. Bernstein > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Comment: Thank you for using encryption! > > iEYEARECAAYFAkjV3EoACgkQBkIOoMqOI17qdwCgvtijBhiWXDgdsdP5hcrKqiac > lV0AnjxDa/cHJOEGJUO85lLiT1qsGvSO > =OkBv > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >
