[Alpine-info] Question on viewing HTML mail

[Dan Grossman]

On 2008-07-28 at 17:29, chappa at u.washington.edu wrote:


> On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, Dan Grossman wrote:

>

> :) Still ... do you think that URL-Viewers is the culprit?  It's the

> :) closest config setting I can find to "HTML-Viewer" (which doesn't

> :) exist).

>

> It is probably an entry in the mailcap file. Take a look at the debug

> (either in the journal or the .pine-debugX file) to see where that is

> coming from. Normal places are your own ~/.mailcap file, or /etc/mailcap.


Oh, awesome!  That's exactly the information I needed.


>From /etc/mailcap:


   text/html; /usr/bin/htmlview %s ; copiousoutput

and htmlview is just a synonym for running Firefox.

Thanks so much!!

-dan