On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Paul M. Foster wrote:
>
> 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?
I've been through the same thing with the last few Pine releases. I
think something has changed in Pine, since I found that when I commented
out the text/html entry in my mailcap file Pine now handles the
conversion of HTML to text internally, and displays it in its own pager
window.
I left the mailcap entry commented out and configured lynx as my URL
viewer in pine's config settings, and everything works fine.
Phil
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