things-Mail: update
Rem P Roberti
remegius at comcast.net
Mon Oct 30 21:25:16 UTC 2006
Gary Kline wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 01:02:50PM +0000, Frank Shute wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 07:00:50PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 12:44:55AM +0000, Frank Shute wrote:
>>>
>>>> You can get mutt to launch embedded URLs in a browser by installing
>>>> urlview and setting up your mailcap. Just thought I'd mention it.
>>>>
>>>> <snip>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> WOW! Where is urlview and what exactly do I add to ~/.mailcap??
>>>
>> Urlview is in ports: textproc/urlview
>>
>> Looking at the urlview manpage, it looks like I was mistaken and it
>> has nothing to do with mailcap but you need the following in
>> ~/.urlview:
>>
>> COMMAND /usr/X11R6/bin/firefox %s
>>
>> Then when you hit Ctl-b in mutt you're presented with a list of pages
>> extracted from the e-mail that you can then scroll through and open in
>> the browser. I don't think I had to do anything to my .muttrc
>>
>> Voila! No more cut and pasting - took me years before I found it :(
>>
>> As for mailcap, it's useful if you get attachments to your mail so at
>> a minimum you want this in ~/.mailcap
>>
>> text/html;/usr/X11R6/bin/firefox %s
>> application/pdf;acroread %s
>> application/msword;antiword %s | less
>> application/postscript;gview %s
>> image/gif;xv %s
>> image/jpeg;xv %s
>> image/png;xv %s
>>
>>
>
>
> After messing with this for an hour it finally works. My initial
> fumbles were that the scipt in /usr/local/bin, url_handler.sh
> defaults to netscape; then lynx.
> ... .
>
> Anyway, one detail is that whereis finds mozilla and firefox in
> /usr/local/bin, not X11R6. So I changed both my ~/.mailcap and
> /usr/local/bin/url_handler:: from "netscape" to "firefox". Now
> thing work as expected. With mutt, files are saved to
> ~/Mail/<user>, ^b gives a list of URL's and mailto's.
>
> The urlview defaults are such that no ~/.urlview nor
> /usr/local/etc/usrview.conf are necessary.
>
> gary
>
>
>> Then mutt can deal with the attachment appropriately.
>>
>>
>>> thanks much,
>>>
>> No worries.
>>
>>
>>> gary
>>>
>>> PS: I wish there were a GUI/HTML-version of mutt that uses
>>> vi and,more imporatant, save mail in ~/Mail .... *but*....
>>> ******.
>>>
>> I prefer programs that can work without X and I run qmail so prefer
>> Maildirs. You could probably get mutt to use gvim as an editor if
>> that's any help.
>>
>> You should be also able to get your browser to use mutt for mailto: in
>> html pages. I can tell you how to do that for firefox, I think.
>>
>> Another thing to get going with mutt (if you're dealing with a lot of
>> mail) is procmail. You can set up a bunch of maildirs and sort your
>> mail into each one to then be read by mutt at your leisure.
>>
>> --
>>
>> Frank
>>
>>
>>
Whew! I finally got it working. Just made sure that the correct paths
(/usr/local/bin) were listed in KDE's component chooser for both
Thunderbird and Firefox. Same for 'network.protocol-handler.app.html".
Rem
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