Hi, there.
I've lurked for a bit, and found a lot of useful info here so far - thanks,
all. I have slowly been tinkering with mutt's settings (it's awful cool! I
love it) and just got as far as mailcaps, oddly enough. So I thought I'd
chip in here.
On Thu, Aug 12, 1999 at 07:32:23AM -0400 or thereabouts, David Thorburn-Gundlach wrote:
> Soren --
> % Currently it just blatently says unsupported text/html or something.
>
> Sounds like you don't have a mailcap file anywhere. Start with your
> home directory...
I wonder, is Soren using Red Hat Linux 6.0? I ask because I am, and my
/etc/mailcap has no entries for html under that, and most of the other
possible mailcap files mutt checks for don't exist. (Yet, that is... I
think at least one is about to :))
'grep mailcap /etc/Muttrc' produces:
[hobbit@aloss ~]$ grep mailcap /etc/Muttrc
# set mailcap_path=""
# set use_mailcap
This has just explained a lot of things to me. (If anyone here has
recently upgraded from 5.2 to 6.0 with Red Hat, btw, note also that
the wonderful urlview program doesn't get installed by default.
Rejoicing in a new and larger hard drive, I installed pretty much
everything, so I'm reasonably sure that I didn't accidentally say
'don't install'. It's on the CD, but you need to install it yourself.
This is a bit silly, because /etc/Muttrc actually expects it to be there.
> To get you started, try dropping the attached .mailcap file into your
> home directory; you should find that HTML messages suddenly appear in
> your mutt pager, with links noted as footnotes and laid out at the
> bottom of the message.
Thank you _very_ much. I have collected a pile of mailcap files from
the links off the mutt website, and they're... er.. a bit big. This
looks like the kind of size I, for one, need, when just getting started!
Telsa
