choices on reading HTML emails

[Ian Zimmerman]

On 2018-05-03 08:46, leo wrote:

> In according to this discussion [1] I use this strategy: By default I
> read html email in mutt (with elinks).  When the message can not be
> handled well by elinks I hit "v", I choose the html part and I watch
> it with firefox.
> 
> This is the part in my muttrc:
> 
> bind  attach  <return>  view-mailcap
> alternative_order text/plain text/html
> unauto_view *
> auto_view text/html
> 
> And this the mailcap:
> 
> text/html;  firefox %s;
> text/html;  elinks -dump %s; nametemplate=%s.html; copiousoutput

How does mutt know to prefer the elinks entry initially?

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