I'm sure this used to work for me but I have changed a few things in
this area recently so I may have broken it by leaving something vital
out.
I have mutt set up so that by default HTML messages are displayed in
the pager using links. However if I want to view the E-Mail in
firefox I hit 'v' and select the HTML part.
Thus in my muttrc I simply have:-
auto_view text/html
... and in my .mailcap I have:-
text/html; /usr/bin/firefox %s
text/html; links -dump %s -html-numbered-links 1; copiousoutput;
nametemplate=%s.html
However the problem is that when I 'v' the mail and then select the
text/html part mutt fires it off at firefox but then continues and
deletes the temporary file before firefox has displayed it.
Sometime it works but with small files it usually doesn't work. I
only realised what was happening when I recently hit return against the
same file (after 'v') lots of times and firefox succeeded in
displaying about half of them. Even those it had displayed had
disappeared from /tmp but since firefox had grabbed and displayed them
already they were still visible.
How does on make mutt wait for firefox to display the file before it
deletes it?
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Chris Green
