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Re: htmlview

On 5/10/08, Chris G <cl@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 10:00:08AM +0200, Ionel Mugurel Ciobica wrote:
>  > On 10-05-2008, at 10h 26'28", hce wrote about "htmlview"
>  > > Hi,
>  > >
>  > > I've set mutt in two machines, one in FC6 and another in Debian. The
>  > > FC6 installed htmlview, the FC6 mutt automatically launchs a brower
>  > > for viewing html emails. In Debian, I could not find htmlview package
>  > > for that feature. What package should I install in Debian to get
>  > > automatically launch a brower to view HTML emails like it in FC6?
>  > >
>  >
>  > What is "FC6"? Did you try to use alien to convert that package from
>  > this "FC6" distribution (if it is a Linux disto) into a debian package?
>  >
>
> It's Fedora Core 6 I assume (a fairly old Fedora version, we're at
>  Fedora 9 now, having lost the 'Core').

Yes, it is an old Fedora Core 6.

>  htmlview is, as far as I can tell from recently looking into it, a
>  RedHat/Fedora script which does various convolutions to decide how to
>  try and display your HTML E-Mail (like it checks for X, then a GUI
>  browser, then a text mode browser, etc., etc.).

Does that mean it is not the mutt feature, rather the FC specific? How
can I make Debian work to display HTML emails the same way as FC6
does?

>  > What is the outcome of this command in a terminal:
>  >   echo $BROWSER
>  >
>  > Do you have an entry "text/html" in your /etc/mailcap or ~/.mailcap?
>  >
>
> Quite, much better without htmlview and doing it the 'user driven' way
>  that gives you what you specify rather than what the distribution
>  guesses you might want.

Would you please explain more what is the "user driver" way to achive that?

Thanks  Chris.

Kind Regards.