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Author: Hendrik Boom
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] mutt and html
On Sat, Oct 30, 2021 at 04:13:31PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> Until upgraded from ascii to beowulf, HTML messages were tolerable.
> Either they were obvious crap, in which case I just deeted them,
> or they seemed like they were worth viewing, in which case they were
> usually html attachments, and I could seen the list of attachments by
> typeing v and selecting the html version -- in which case it would
> open for me in the chromium browser.
>
> This stopped working after the upgrade to beowulf.
>
> I did manage to reconfigure, telling it to use firefox-esr, but that
> didn't help much. I connect to my server, the machine on which I run
> mutt, using ssh -X.
> So firefox on the server detects I already have a firefox browser
> on my laptop and proceeds to give the job of browsing the message to
> my laptop.
> Makes sense, except that my laptop has no way to access the
> /tmp/mutt/somethingorother.html on the server.
>
> And I have not been able to get mutt to call chromium at all.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> -- hendrik
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As far as I can tell, it's not seeing the information in my ~/.mailcao file.
When I put in an entry like

text/html ; echo foo

it still displays the html content of a an attachment as if it were
ordinatry plain text attachment, so i get to see all the html tags.

-- hendrik