Assembled Wisdom! First, generically: I feel it is a source of difficulty that mutt relies on two config files, .muttrc and .mailcap. Perhaps one of the experts could give us a short exposition of the use of each of these files, and what to do when they conflict. That would help me get my second, personal, issue resolved.
Second(personal issue): I'm still having problems with getting my html-mail to open(in a new tab) in my browser, which is Firefox(Debianers call it iceweasel). Often, when I use 'v' on an entry in my mutt display, and then Arrow down to "3 . . . . [text/html . . . .", and then press Enter, a new Tab does open in my browser, and I see the html-mail displayed nicely. Even then I get, in my browser-Tab: "file:///home/alan/tmp/mutt.html", but there is no such file in my ~/tmp directory! But, too often, I get a quick new tab, a tenth of a second look at the html I want to see, and then mutt "thinks better of it" and I get a screen: File not found Iceweasel can't find the file at /home/alan/tmp/mutt.html The decision which way mutt will go between these two alternatives is, as far as I can see, quite arbitrary. For the record: I have the following entry in my .muttrc set tmpdir=~/tmp # where to store temp files This works fine when I'm writing my mail. For instance there is now a file in ~/tmp containing this text that I'm now working on. I also have an entry # set mailcap_path="/etc/mailcap:/usr/local/share/mailcap" I uncommented this, but quickly put the comment back on! I have a huge /etc/mailcap, which I can't make head or tails of. Bottom line: there is some kind of a fight inside mutt about opening a tab in my browser; how can I reconcile this conflict. What I'd like of course is: when I hit 'v' I'd like that E-mail to be opened in a tab in my iceweasel/Firefox as best as possible. TIA for anticipated help! Alan -- Alan McConnell : http://globaltap.com/~alan/ No one minds what Jeffreys says . . it is not more than a week ago that I heard him speak disrespectfully of the Equator.(Sydney Smith)
