Hi,
On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Paul M. Foster wrote:
> 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?
Well, this does not solve your problem directly, but Pine 4 is now capable
of displaying HTML inline without the need of a helper application. Have a
look at the release notes for further info.
Bye,
LenZ
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