alpine

alpine email software: the better way to opening links

gregladen | October 5, 2009

For today's Linux Hint: How to pick which browser will open when you pick a link while using apine in Ubuntu. Sometimes there is a URL in an email that you want to visit. In a GUI email brower, you click on it with the mouse. In apine you navigate to the link with the usual navigation keys (but the first link will already be selected for you) and hit enter to open the link. The default that alpine comes with, at least on my machine, seems to be the Epiphany browser I have no idea why. And when it goes there, it opens the browser and freezes the alpine screen, so I have to close the…