On 2012-12-19, Alan McConnell wrote:
> Assembled Wisdom!
>
> No, the difficulty is not just that it exists<G>, it is how
> my mutt occasionally deals with it.
>
> I call up mutt from one of my terms(URxvt) and it displays my
> E-mail from /var/spool/mail/alan, as is normal. With many
> of my mails I press 'v' to get a display like
>
> I 1 <no description> [multipa/alternativ, 7bit,
> 13K]
> I 2 ├─><no description> [text/plain, quoted, utf-8,
> 1.6K]
> I 3 └─><no description> [text/html, quoted, utf-8,
> 11K]
>
> and use my arrow keys to get to the number 3, '[text/html, . . .'
> I then press 'Enter' and _sometimes_ a tab opens on my browser to
> display the interpreted content of the mail. This is what I want.
> But _sometimes_ I get a tab: "Problem loading page" with a display
>
> "File not found
> Iceweasel can't find the file at /home/alan/tmp/mutt.html."
>
> And this is true; there is nothing in my ~/tmp directory.
> But there is also nothing in my tmp/ directory when the html-mail
> opens successfully. The Tab says:
> file:///home/alan/tmp/mutt.html
> but there is nothing of that kind in my ~tmp/.
>
> I suspect that my ~/.mailcap file is not correct. I was given it
> several years ago, and I've never understood it. I give it here, in
> its one-line entirety:
>
> text/html; iceweasel -new-tab '%s'; test=test -n
> "$DISPLAY";nametemplate=%s.html
There are some tips on handling that problem here:
http://www.spocom.com/users/gjohnson/mutt/#background
Regards,
Gary
