Probably no one knows this, but I'll ask it anyway.
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?
Paul M. Foster
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