Re: Difficulty with html-mail
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 09:40:35PM -0600, Jim Graham wrote: 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] Just curious...are the question marks from your e-mail or from my system? Hey Jim, Your assumption is correct---it's from your system. You can check how the original mail should look like via the following link (assuming your web-browser handles it correctly) (-: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.mutt.user/40236
Difficulty with html-mail
Assembled Wisdom! No, the difficulty is not just that it existsG, 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 I am running Debian squeeze; my browser is iceweasel; my mutt is 1.5.20. I spare you my .muttrc, except to say that it has been pretty constant for my many years of using mutt and Linux. TIA for expected help! Alan -- Alan McConnell : http://globaltap.com/~alan/ War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.(Bierce) Know thyself. If you need help, call the C.I.A.
Re: Difficulty with html-mail
* Alan McConnell a...@his.com [12-19-12 16:13]: [...] 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: I suspect your temp file has expired before the browser has a change to open it, especially since you cannot see it below ~/tmp (I rather use system tmp, /tmp). Install a delay/wait state after exporting the file so it does not disappear to quickly. I did this myself sometime back but no longer require it and cannot remember where/how I did it. -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.orgPhoto Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member Registered Linux User #207535@ http://linuxcounter.net
Re: Difficulty with html-mail
Wow, you are quick! On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 04:19:32PM -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote: * Alan McConnell a...@his.com [12-19-12 16:13]: [...] 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 am sorry, I miswrote. My /tmp exists of course, and so does my ~/tmp, /home/alan/tmp/. What I meant was: there is nothing relevant to mutt in it. I have just checked, there is a #mutt . . . file in it now, reflecting the fact that I am editing a reply to you. Install a delay/wait state after exporting the file so it does not disappear to quickly. I did this myself sometime back but no longer require it and cannot remember where/how I did it. LOL Very reminiscent of how I operate! one gets involved in a difficulty, one fixes it, and then the solution slowly oozes out of one's brain. Thanks for your reply! Alan -- Alan McConnell : http://globaltap.com/~alan/ War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.(Bierce) Know thyself. If you need help, call the C.I.A.
Re: Difficulty with html-mail
* Alan McConnell a...@his.com [12-19-12 16:32]: Wow, you are quick! On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 04:19:32PM -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote: * Alan McConnell a...@his.com [12-19-12 16:13]: [...] File not found Iceweasel can't find the file at /home/alan/tmp/mutt.html. [...] I have a work-a-round(tm!) that I employ just for viewing html mail because I have a somewhat convoluted setup. I maintain a tmux (similar to screen) session containing a mutt instance from a remote computer where I maintain my mail and web servers. Since the tmux session is viewed locally but the session originates somewhere else, dumping html mail to a local browser is not a direct operation. I have a macro to dump the http portion to a specific file and a local browser set to access that file via nfs: macro attach ,x |rm -f ~/mutt.htmlenter:unset \ wait_key\n;save-entrykill-line~/mutt.htmlenter to access: browser file:///mnt/nfs/remote-home/mutt.html You should have no trouble making this work for a local operation. ps: Please, I read the list and have *no* need or request for a second copy of list mail. Mutt *does* provide for a list-reply, a function missing on many of the lessor clients available on other operating systems. -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.orgPhoto Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member Registered Linux User #207535@ http://linuxcounter.net
Re: Difficulty with html-mail
On 2012-12-19, Alan McConnell wrote: Assembled Wisdom! No, the difficulty is not just that it existsG, 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
Re: Difficulty with html-mail
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 04:12:55PM -0500, Alan McConnell wrote: 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] Just curious...are the question marks from your e-mail or from my system? I see these quite frequently with some e-mail (primarily on e-mail lists), and am wondering what causes that (aside from what I THINK is the obvious answer, characters that aren't being interpreted properly). Later, --jim -- THE SCORE: ME: 2 CANCER: 0 73 DE N5IAL (/4)MiSTie #49997 Running Mac OS X Lion spooky1...@gmail.com ICBM/Hurricane: 30.44406N 86.59909W Do not look into waveguide with remaining eye.
