Xfce mutt, mailcap, and Firefox

[janedenone]

I tried configuring FreeBSD on a desktop system (with Xfce) for the first time, and encountered the following problem. My mailcap for mutt has points to Firefox for HTML attachments:

text/html; firefox %s; needsterminal;

When opening a HTML attachment from within mutt, it is displayed in Firefox, but then messages like the following are printed to the terminal:

console.warn: BackupService: "There was an error while trying to get the Document's directory" [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIProperties.get]"  nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)"  location: "JS frame :: resource:///modules/backup/BackupService.sys.mjs :: get docsDirFolderPath :: line 1245"  data: no]
JavaScript error: resource:///modules/backup/BackupService.sys.mjs, line 3812: NotAllowedError: PathUtils.join: PathUtils does not support empty paths

The HTML attachment is stored in /tmp. I also created a little wrapper script:

#!/bin/sh
cp "$1" /tmp/mutt-html-$$.html
firefox /tmp/mutt-html-$$.html &>/dev/null &

and refer to it in mailcap, but the result was identical. What could be the problem here?

 

[bda65]

My script:

#!/bin/sh
file="$1"
tmpfile="$(mktemp)"
cp "$file" "$tmpfile"
firefox "$tmpfile"

My mailcap:
text/html; ~/bin/muttfirefox %s; copiousoutput;

 

[jwillia3]

The errors are printed to stderr and console warnings are printed to stdout.
I'm not sure what you intended that cmd to do, but I think you have a mistake in it.
&>/dev/null is not a construct. That is parsed as & >/dev/null which is just a duplicate & and redirecting stdout.
I think you want firefox /tmp/mutt-html-$$.html >/dev/null 2>&1 & to redirect stdout, set stdout to stderr, and background.

 

[gpw928]

With elm+ME, which invokes metamail(1) to deal with mailcap(4) for non-text displays, I use:

text/html;firefox %s >/dev/null 2>&1; nametemplate=%s.html

and when the iridium package is actually available (which is not very often):

text/html;iridium %s; test=test -n "$DISPLAY"; nametemplate=%s.html

(also works for chrome with s/iridium/chrome/).

 

[janedenone]

The errors are printed to stderr and console warnings are printed to stdout.
I'm not sure what you intended that cmd to do, but I think you have a mistake in it.
&>/dev/null is not a construct. That is parsed as & >/dev/null which is just a duplicate & and redirecting stdout.
I think you want firefox /tmp/mutt-html-$$.html >/dev/null 2>&1 & to redirect stdout, set stdout to stderr, and background.

Yes, sorry, my script did not make any sense.