** Gabriel Chavez [2011-02-02 17:31]:
> On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 04:46:40PM +, Paul Tansom wrote:
> > ** Gabriel Chavez [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.
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