Reading html mail with mutt

Kurt Wall kwall
Mon May 17 11:56:44 PDT 2004


Consuming 1.3K bytes, Joel Hammer blathered:
> I thought I would pass this along since this took me a while to get
> working.
> 
> I don't know how the pro's (mutt pro's) do this, but I finally got mutt
> to read html mail. I put this line in /etc/mailcap:
> 
> text/html;         /etc/alternatives/mozilla -remote 'openFile (%s,new-tab)' 1>/dev/null 2>&1  || /etc/alternatives/mozilla %s
> 

Works like a charm over here. I simplified it to:

text/html;/path/to/firebird -remote 'openFile (%s,new-tab)' &> /dev/null

Kurt
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