Subject: Re: html attachments

From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 11:13:39 -0800

On Wed, 19 Feb 1997, Cyber-Babushka wrote:

> Is there any way to convince Pine (in Linux) to display text/HTML
> attachments, even with all the embedded html?  It's pretty annoying that
> the only thing I can do is save them and read them later with some other
> editor.

Configure an appropriate viewer for text/html in your .mailcap file,
e.g.
	text/html; lynx -force_html %s; needsterminal

Using the above, Pine will invoke Lynx to view the HTML.

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From: [email-masked] (Orjan Johansen)
Date: 28 Feb 1997 00:50:17 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
Paul O Bartlett  <[email-masked]> wrote:
>On Thu, 27 Feb 1997, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:
>> On Wed, 19 Feb 1997, David L Miller wrote:
>> Yes, but lynx will go into a horrible loop and crash and burn with
>> that in a .mailcap file.
>
>    Strange.  I have the above statement (or something very much like it
>-- going from memory here) in my .mailcap, and it works just dandy:

What I read in news.software.readers was that this was a bug in old 
versions of Lynx, which has since been fixed.

Greetings,
Ørjan.

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From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 18:38:51 -0500

On Thu, 27 Feb 1997, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:

> > > [...]
> Instead you should put that in a mailcap like file that lynx will
> never touch.  Mine is called .pinemailcap .  [...]

    Strange.  I have the above statement (or something very much like it
-- going from memory here) in my .mailcap, and it works just dandy: no
crashing, no burning, by either Lynx (v2.6) or Pine (v3.94) under
SunOS 4.1.4.  It has worked without a hitch every time I get an email
with both text/plain and text/html Mime parts.  Perhaps there is
something in your configuration that is unhappy.

    The one things I don't like is a matter of operating preference. 
If I get such an email, Pine tells me that the two parts are present
and that I have to go into View to see either of them.  So far I ahve
not found a way -- if there even is one -- to make Pine select one of
them automatically and show it to me without further intervention.

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