On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 07:13:55PM +0100, Marco Giusti wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 04:29:06PM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 02:02:11PM -0500, Patrice Levesque wrote:
> > > 
> > > > attached a simple script that is use. set it executable and call this
> > > > from firefox, not mutt directly
> > > 
> > > I believe there's no need for pyrotechnics :)
> > > 
> > > As mutt supports mailto: URLs natively, this suffices:
> > > 
> > > #!/bin/sh
> > > exec xterm -e mutt "$@"
> > > 
> > What I actually ended up with was:-
> > 
> >     xfce4-terminal -e "mutt -F /home/chris/.mutt/muttrc $@"
> 
> a bit off topic but I think that the -F option is superflous (may not
> be). from the manual:
> 
>       Mutt will next look for a file named .muttrc in your home directory.
>       If this file does not exist and your home directory has a
>       subdirectory named .mutt, Mutt tries to load a file named
>       .mutt/muttrc

Yes, but does Firefox run things with your full environment in place? 
Actually the -F got left there from an earlier attempt which didn't work
so you may well be right!  :-)

-- 
Chris Green

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