On Tue, Nov 02, 2021 at 03:50:07PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> 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.

Correction: it's really called ~/.mailcap, not ~/.mailcao

> 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
>
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