[Alpine-info] HTML text view

[Peter Koellner]

Just for the record:

created a ~/.mailcap file containing:

application/*; /usr/bin/open %s
audio/*; /usr/bin/open %s
image/*; /usr/bin/open %s
text/*; /usr/bin/open %s
video/*; /usr/bin/open %s


and then set an exception for Mailcap-Path in configuration settings
to ~/.mailcap on macos
This then opens the temporary file path correctly, though images
loaded from other mime parts in the mail are missing, not sure how
that works. Our rental office loves to send emails with annopuncements
where they put all the text as a rendered image with fancy fonts and eye candy and
whatnot in an otherwise empty embedded html page microsoft-style and
leave the plain text part empty, so I have to figure that out too.
This plist error below came from some really ancient preferences
launcher configuration that was restored from the old machine's backup.

So the main problem is more or less solved.

Regards
   Peter

On Tue, 17 Jan 2023, Peter Koellner wrote:


> One more thing to add: Trying to open the HTML part leads to the following

> message popping up:

>

> 2023-01-17 22:33:00.812 alpine[1261:16503]

> CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing

> semicolon in dictionary on line 1. Parsing will be abandoned. Break on

> _CFPropertyListMissingSemicolon to debug.

>

> I don't see that symbol in the source code, grep -r CFPropertyList in

> alpine does not yield any results, so I guess this comes from some mac

> library, seems to have to do something with XML parsing...

>

>

> On Sat, 14 Jan 2023, Peter Koellner wrote:

>

>> Hi,

>> 

>> I have reincarnated my old MacbookPro backup into a MacBookAir and

>> installed alpine again. It works fine, only when I try to view the

>> HTML part of an email there seems to be a problem. It does open a

>> browser tab in firefox, but the tab is empty. Viewing an URL from

>> plain text works without problems, though. I am using a remote setup,

>> and on linux it works fine. So my question is: where do I have to

>> configure the behaviour of opening HTML attachments/mail parts? I am

>> not sure if this is inside alpine or something I have to do in mime

>> type configurations in the system. The "URL-Viewers" setting is

>> overridden with "open -a Firefox", I guess this is only for the url

>> displays but not for the html mail parts? Or do I have to give a

>> different parameter for those? Or is it configured somewhere else?

>> 

>> Regards

>>  Peter

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