On 2015-01-22, David Champion wrote:
> To solve this you need a wrapper script around Firefox. The wrapper
> will take the file content from $1 and save it somehow for Firefox, so
> that mutt may delete the original.
>
> There are various techniques for this. I personally like the approach
> of hard-linking the temp file so that it doesn't use more storage.
> Something like this:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> COPY="$1.firefox.html"
> ln "$1" "$COPY"
> /usr/bin/firefox "$COPY" &
I'm surprised that linking works because it used to be that mutt
overwrote the temporary file with 0s before deleting it. I thought
it still did, but I don't know for sure.
Another place that you might look for solutions, Chris, is here:
http://www.spocom.com/users/gjohnson/mutt/#background
Regards,
Gary
