** Gabriel Chavez <gaboma...@gmail.com> [2011-02-02 17:31]: > On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 04:46:40PM +0000, Paul Tansom wrote: > > ** Gabriel Chavez <gaboma...@gmail.com> [2011-02-02 16:21]: > > > I've been looking around for a way to open my html emails with Firefox > > > but I still don't know how to do it. Is there a way to do it? > > ** end quote [Gabriel Chavez] > > > > I was sure I had a configuration in my .muttrc directory (I've split into > > multiple files in a directory), but I must be mis-remembering! It works out > > of > > the box on my Ubuntu install, and the magic looks to be in the mailcap > > configuration file in /etc, although you can also do it with a local > > .mailcap > > in your home directory. The relevant line in my config is: > > > > text/html; /usr/bin/sensible-browser '%s'; description=HTML Text; > > nametemplate=%s.html > > > > although you could specify Firefox directly if you like, rather than using > > the > > system default. My default is Firefox, except when Chrome updates and I > > have to > > put some of the settings back (regular enough that I have a script for it!). > > > I tried but it doesn't not work. I read the mutt documentation and > tried also: > text/html; firefox -remote 'openURL(%s)' ; test=RunningX > > But it does not work. I get the following error message: > mailcap entry for type text/html not found > > I don't get if I use command-line program like lynx. > Maybe it's a problem with the display variable? I'll keep looking. ** end quote [Gabriel Chavez]
Try: text/html; /usr/bin/firefox -remote 'openURL(%s)' ; test=test -n "$DISPLAY" I've not tested without the full path to firefox (and check yours is the same). using: test=RunningX failed for me because I didn't have that utility, which seems to be a separate downloadable C program. -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 ====================================================================== Registered in England | Company No: 4905028 | Registered Office: Crawford House, Hambledon Road, Denmead, Waterlooville, Hants, PO7 6NU
