On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 10:00:08AM +0200, Ionel Mugurel Ciobica wrote: > On 10-05-2008, at 10h 26'28", hce wrote about "htmlview" > > Hi, > > > > I've set mutt in two machines, one in FC6 and another in Debian. The > > FC6 installed htmlview, the FC6 mutt automatically launchs a brower > > for viewing html emails. In Debian, I could not find htmlview package > > for that feature. What package should I install in Debian to get > > automatically launch a brower to view HTML emails like it in FC6? > > > > What is "FC6"? Did you try to use alien to convert that package from > this "FC6" distribution (if it is a Linux disto) into a debian package? > It's Fedora Core 6 I assume (a fairly old Fedora version, we're at Fedora 9 now, having lost the 'Core').
htmlview is, as far as I can tell from recently looking into it, a RedHat/Fedora script which does various convolutions to decide how to try and display your HTML E-Mail (like it checks for X, then a GUI browser, then a text mode browser, etc., etc.). > What is the outcome of this command in a terminal: > echo $BROWSER > > Do you have an entry "text/html" in your /etc/mailcap or ~/.mailcap? > Quite, much better without htmlview and doing it the 'user driven' way that gives you what you specify rather than what the distribution guesses you might want. -- Chris Green
