On Sat, Oct 08, 2022 at 10:25:29AM +0200, Jan Eden via Mutt-users wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I recently configured mutt on a Linux system, and cannot display HTML
> messages in the default browser. mailcap contains the following lines:
>
> text/html; open %s;
> text/html; w3m -I %{charset} -T text/html; copiousoutput
> application/pdf; open %s; copiousoutput
>
> w3m is used automatically (auto_view text/html), and PDF documents are
> opened correctly in evince.
>
> But when I try to open an HTML message manually, Firefox displays either
> a permission denied error (with AppArmor enabled), or a file not found
> error – both pointing to the message's filename.
>
> How can I allow Firefox to access and display the message?
>
I no longer use Firefox on my xubuntu system (I've moved to Vivaldi)
but I seem to remember that Firefox's security paranoia means that you
now have to explicitly configure to allow access to files on the local
system.
By 'manually' I presume you mean v[iew] the message parts and then
m[view-mailcap] the html.
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Chris Green
