On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 06:44:44PM -0400, Michael George wrote: > I'm having trouble with mutt opening other applications for various mime > types. > > I'm sure this worked last month, and from what I can see, I had > mutt-1.5.20-r18 and firefox-3.6.13. I now have mutt-1.5.21-r1 and > firefox-3.6.15. > > "mutt -nF /dev/null -Q mailcap_path" gives me: > > mailcap_path="~/.mailcap:/usr/share/mutt/mailcap:/etc/mutt/mailcap:/etc/mailcap:/usr/etc/mailcap:/usr/local/etc/mailcap" > > I have nothing for the tag "text/html" in my muttrc file. > > I have "text/html; firefox %s" in my ~/.mailcap file. > > I have the following in /etc/mailcap: > > text/html; /usr/bin/lynx -force_html '%s'; needsterminal; > description=HTML Text; nametemplate=%s.html > text/html; /usr/bin/lynx -dump -force_html '%s'; copiousoutput; > description=HTML Text; nametemplate=%s.html > > and if I put "auto_view" in my muttrc file, it will try to open the > files with lynx. Yet putting the firefox %s command into /etc/mailcap > doesn't open firefox. > > All the docs I can find seem to indicates that what I have configured > should try to open firefox like it used to, but it isn't. Is there > perhaps some type of "connecting package" that needed to be rebuild with > firefox for this to work? >
try to using the /usr/bin/firefox in your ~/.mailcap instead?
