On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Lenz Grimmer wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Paul M. Foster wrote:
>
> > New SuSE 5.3 installation, using Pine as the MUA. When receiving html
> > attachments, Pine used to open Lynx and view them. Now it doesn't.
> > Can't figure out why. This is apparently controlled by the
> > /etc/mailcap file, which originally had no entry for the text/html
> > attachment type. In this state, Pine would say it didn't know how to
> > display text/html types. So I put an entry in /etc/mailcap as follows:
> >
> > text/html; lynx %s
> >
> > Now it doesn't tell me it doesn't understand it, it just says:
> >
> > VIEWER command launched
> >
> > but doesn't display the file. ps ax does not show that lynx is running
> > when I do this, unless is ran for a split second and I missed it.
> >
> > /etc/mime.types includes an entry for text/html, and lynx is installed
> > and works. FWIW, when you hit "A" (About) for the attachment, it says
> > that it will run the command lynx <datafile>. That makes sense, and
> > works when I do this by itself in another console. But it doesn't
> > appear to work inside Pine. I'm not running this as root, and it
> > almost looks like somehow I can't launch a subshell or subprocess.
> > Peculiar.
> >
> > So I'm stymied. Any ideas?
>
> Well, this does not solve your problem directly, but Pine 4 is now capable
> of displaying HTML inline without the need of a helper application. Have a
> look at the release notes for further info.
>
> Bye,
> LenZ
I thought about using version 4, but YaST warns you that it is
experimental, so I went for 3.96 instead. May have to check it out.
Paul Foster
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