previewing images inside mutt

Hi,

I use some mailcap entries to have a previewing of some attachments in
mutt. For example for pdf file there is the line:

application/pdf; pdftotext -layout %s /dev/stdout; copiousoutput

That works very well.
But I would like to preview images too. For viewing images on the
virtual terminal I use fbi, an image viewer for the framebuffer. I have
an entry for this application in my mailcap file and it works well with
the w3m browser. If one does not know how this looks, I put a screenshot
on http://mherrn.de/shot.png.
So I would like to have a similar previewing in mutt. But that does not
work. When opening a mail with image attachments in mutt, each
attachment is given to fbi, but fbi fails to open that image. When all
images are tried, I see the mail where the following info is given:

[-- Attachment #2: monitoring.png --]
[-- Type: image/png, Encoding: base64, Size: 19K --]

[-- Autoview using fbi "'/tmp/monitoring.H5WaDL.png'" --]
[-- Autoview stderr of fbi "'/tmp/monitoring.H5WaDL.png'" --]
using linux console font "/usr/share/consolefonts/lat1-16.psf.gz"
map: vt04 => fb0
open '/tmp/monitoring.H5WaDL.png': No such file or directory

So what can be the problem here? Is there even a way to have have the
images displayed at the same time with the text as with w3m?
If not, I still want to open images with the view-attachments command in
mutt and opening each attachment directly. At least that should work.

This is my mailcap entry for images:

image/*; fbi "%s" ; copiousoutput

It would be great if someone has any help to me.

Marco


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On 16 May 2004 12:14:48 GMT, Marco Herrn wrote:

> map: vt04 => fb0
> open '/tmp/monitoring.H5WaDL.png': No such file or directory

Does fbi 'background' when it runs? mutt will delete the temporary file as
soon as the viewer process exits, which looks like what's happening. Search
on google groups for previous occasions where attachment viewers have come
up, there's various solutions in there.

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Paul

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