[Alpine-info] How to unlynx links in Alpine?

[Olaf Skibbe via Alpine-info]

Hi Thomas,

You do not share too many informations, so it is difficult to point
out a possible reason for your problem. But anyways, I can tell you
what works for me. I use alpine and Firefox just like you seemingly
want it to work.  The system is a Linux (Debian stable) with alpine
2.26.

A search in my .pinerc shows the following lines containing "url":

(Search command: $ grep -i url .pinerc)
Result:
==========
 	enable-msg-view-urls,
# List of programs to open Internet URLs (e.g. http or ftp references).
url-viewers=/usr/bin/firefox
==========

I do not know if the .mailcap could interfere with the alpine
configuration in regard of the URL viewer, but (for what it's worth) I
checked for this. My .mailcap does not contain anything related URLs
or http or https.

Nevertheless, there are entries containing lynx in /etc/mailcap and
lynx is installed.

Maybe this helps you finding the problem?

Olaf


On Sun, 5 Jan 2025 at 02:41, Thomas Gramstad via Alpine-info wrote:


> In my Alpine config I have URL-viewer set to /usr/bin/firefox

> in order to be able to click a link in an e-mail message and

> have it opened in Firefox in an external window.

>

> This used to work, but now it doesn't.

>

> What happens now is that I'm asked to accept a cookie, I answer

> Y, and then this repeats a few times. Then finally I get the

> message that the app will not work unless I install Javascript,

> and then nothing more happens.

>

> I have tried a few times, and also used the ? option while

> accepting cookies. According to the ? option, the app asking

> for repeated cookie acceptance is Lynx. And yes, it does look

> like a vague memory I have a few decades back of the Lynx web

> browser.

>

> So how can I make Firefox work as before, without being asked

> about cookies, and without Javascript, and without Lynx?

> Is there a way to unlynx Alpine?

>

> Thomas Gramstad

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