Re: Could not load html file to browser

[Kyle Wheeler <kyle-mutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Sunday, September 21 at 03:01 PM, quoth Gary Johnson:
>> It sounds like your mailcap erroneously hardcoded the location of 
>> temporary html files as /tmp/mutt.html, which is not what mutt 
>> uses.
>
> Yes it is what mutt uses.  See the mutt manual and the tmpdir 
> variable.  It defaults to "/tmp" unless the environment variable 
> TMPDIR is set.

You misunderstood me. I wasn't claiming that mutt didn't use /tmp.

>> 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.
>
> Well, in that case, I guess mutt 1.5.17 has a security problem. 
> Mutt does use random file names for files to be edited, but not for 
> files that are just viewed.

Ah! You're right. Interesting...

~Kyle
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