Display html from Mutt to links -g

[frcc]

Hello Everyone, Finally getting around to using OpenBSD on my
desktop. (been running on my servers for a few yrs now)
Installed 5.9, links, mutt, getmail, XFCE4 and was wondering how to get mutt to display html attachments using links -g or firefox. Have been reading some posts here but they may be
affected by age and os version.
Do I create an entry in ~/.mailcap, ~/.muttrc, /etc/mutt/Muttrc or ??????
and what sort of an entry would I need to accomplish this?

As usual thanks in advance........

[scottro]

I have a bit on this on my mutt page. There are a few ways. You can use a perl script so that if you're running mutt in a terminal, while X is running, you can put a line in .Xdefaults, and with a keystroke, highlight the link, then open a browser of choice with an enter key.
There's another way where you can set up entries in mailcap, which I got from someone's blog post. Anyway, I cover various ways to do it at https://srobb.net/mutt.html#HTML

[scottro]

Rereading your post, it seems that you want graphical display. In that case, the two possibilities are the one I mention that begins with the blog post, or else the one using the perl scripts.

[shep]

Do I create an entry in ~/.mailcap, ~/.muttrc, /etc/mutt/Muttrc or ??????

Mutt is highly flexible and you can specify your default mailcap and your default muttrc.

mutt -F /directory/muttrc

will tell mutt to open using the specified configuration file. If none is specified mutt will look for ~/.muttrc if present. Otherwise the system wide default is used.

In the same manner, you can specify the default mailcap in your mutt configuration file.

I centralized all my configuration files to ease backup

PooBear$ pwd
/home/jsh/.config
PooBear$ ls mutt
certificates colors       colors_bu    mailcap      muttrc

It is also possible to set your default html viewer to be text based for speed and security. When you really need to look at the graphical rendering of html code, you can display the list of attachments and open attachement with your specified graphical browser. The order of html viewers in the mailcap is important, the last entry is the default.

My mailcap

PooBear$ pwd
/home/jsh/.config/mutt
PooBear$ cat mailcap
# $Id$
#text/html; xombrero %s; test=test -n "$DISPLAY"; nametemplate=%s.html
text/html; firefox-esr %s; test=test -n "$DISPLAY"; nametemplate=%s.html
text/html; w3m -I %{charset} -T text/html -dump; copiousoutput
text/plain; less %s
application/msword; lowriter %s; test RunningX
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document;lowriter %s
application/vnd.ms-excel; libreoffice %s; copiousoutput
application/excel; libreoffice %s; copiousoutput
application/vnd.ms-excel; libreoffice %s; copiousoutput
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet; libreoffice '%s'; description="Office Open XML Spreadsheet"; nametemplate=%s.xlsx

application/pdf; xpdf -q %s
application/acrobat: xpdf %s
image/*; feh %s
application/pgp-keys; pgp -f < %s ; copiousoutput

[frcc]

Thanks for the replies!

Looks like this old Dell is somewhat dated as it suffers speed loss when using graphical intensive applications (XFCE4 Firefox etc).

So, for now will simply try 5.9 with and without X (removed XFCE4)as the speed of getmail, mutt, links, links-g, .abook, calcurse, .when, feh etc meet my current needs.

Until this machine is upgraded. "lipstick on the pig will have to wait".

Opinion: Hard to beat simple and fast and OpenBSD!

[shep]

I migrated from Xfce4 to a lightweight desktop. I have been tweaking the lightweight desktop for years and have it to the point where I prefer it even on my faster hardware. I put the configuration files into a howto in the forums.

On my own system I use most of the applications you list: mutt, abook, calcurse feh. I added nmh, xpdf, gv and Netsurf. w3m is a nmh dependency so I use the w3m--image .similiar to links -g, rather than have redundant text browsers.

If you are interested expanding on simple/fast, PM me. I can share some of the configuration files.

[frcc]

Ditto
Great! Would like to hear your thoughts and read what you have.

Finally moved to OpenBSD desktop trying to get things running somewhat similiar to what i had running in "lubuntu"

More I use the base system the more i like the simplicity and speed.