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

[Mats Dufberg via Alpine-info]

I just want to note that there could be other files read by the mailcap 
function, such as /etc/mailcap. See "man mailcap".

I have no .mailcap and no url-viewers setting in .pinerc, but alpine will 
open http/https URLs with Chrome for me. /etc/mailcap is non-empty on my 
system.


Yours,
Mats

On 2025-01-05, 13:25 (+0100) Olaf Skibbe via Alpine-info <alpine-info at u.was...:


> 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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