Re: Could not load html file to browser

[Kyle Wheeler <kyle-mutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Sunday, September 21 at 10:14 AM, quoth hce:
> Hi,
>
> I set following definition in the muttrc on the Debian box:
>
> set implicit_autoview
> alternative_order text/plain text/html

Okay... what does your text/html mailcap entry look like?

> When an email contains html format, the mutt called [-- Autoview 
> using /usr/bin/w3m -dump -T text/html ''/tmp/mutt.html'' --]. But 
> the html file could not be loaded to the browser as following error:

It sounds like your mailcap erroneously hardcoded the location of 
temporary html files as /tmp/mutt.html, which is not what mutt uses.

> (1) Where is the autoview configurated to call /usr/bin/w3m -dump -T 
> text/html?

It's defined in your mailcap file, either in ~/.mailcap or 
/etc/mailcap. See your mailcap man page.

> (2) Why there is no /tmp/mutt.html? I tried to use vi to open 
> /tmp/mutt.html, there was no that file either. That is why caused 
> the browser eror to load a non exist /tmp/mutt.html file.

The short answer is: because there isn't *supposed* to be.

> (3) How to fix it in muttrc?

You can't. It has to be fixed in your mailcap.

A correct mailcap entry should look something like this:

     text/html; w3m -dump -T text/html %s; needsterminal; copiousoutput;

Note the "%s" instead of "/tmp/mutt.html". That's so that mutt can 
tell w3m where the temporary file is. It is usually something with an 
unpredictable name (if it was a predictable name, it would be a 
security problem), and NOT /tmp/mutt.html.

~Kyle
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