Determining what mailcap entry mutt is trying to run for an attachment?

Jon Leech oddhack at sonic.net
Mon Mar 2 03:57:19 UTC 2020


On Sun, Mar 01, 2020 at 05:53:52PM -0800, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 01, 2020 at 04:55:34PM -0800, Jon Leech wrote:
> > I just upgraded from mutt as packaged for Debian 9 (1.7.2, I think) to
> > mutt 1.10.1 packaged for Debian 10. Now attempting to 'v'iew a text/html
> > mail attachment just displays it as text on my console.
>
> Try typing 'm' in the attachment menu, which forces using the mailcap
> (<view-mailcap>), instead of hitting Enter.
>
> Debian's Buster package reverted to a mostly vanilla Mutt release, and so
> doesn't have patches that probably changed the default "Enter" keybinding
> for you.

    That was it - thanks very much! Will poke through the config file
bindings now.
    Jon


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