On 2022-10-08 11:52, Chris Green wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 08, 2022 at 12:06:52PM +0200, Jan Eden via Mutt-users wrote:
> > On 2022-10-08 09:34, Chris Green wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > With AppArmor disabled, Firefox tries to display the message, but cannot
> > find the message file in /var/tmp/ – %s seems to point to that
> > directory.
> >
> > In Firefox' settings, I did not find any parameter to keep the browser
> > from accessing local files.
> >
> > > By 'manually' I presume you mean v[iew] the message parts and then
> > > m[view-mailcap] the html.
> >
> > Yes.
> >
> When I view an HTML message like this the address is like:-
>
> file:///srv/mutt/mutt-esprimo-1000-151542-10027422769961820949.html
>
> I use a script (called via mailcap) to store the HTML message in that
> directory.
>
> So, in mailcap I have:-
>
> [...]
>
> You don't need the bit for remote viewing from my laptop, just the "running
> locally"
> bit.Thank you! This works well with Epiphany, but Firefox still fails (which I do not care about, as long as I have a working browser option). - Jan
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