Mailcap selectively applying settings

Christopher Conforti christopher at conforti.xyz
Thu May 12 19:38:23 UTC 2022


Hi list, I'm having a bit of a weird one, at least for me. I can't get mutt to
read my entire mailcap file properly, it seems. For example, I have the
following line in my mailcap:

images/*;	eog %s

It handles this just fine; all image attachments are opened with eog. However,
another line:

text/html	lynx -dump %s | more

is seemingly ignored, even when there are no other options given for handling
HTML. No matter which browser I set, no matter what combination of options I
use, I cannot seem to get mutt to use this entry in any way. By all clues in the
documentation, my personal mailcap file (~/.mailcap) should take priority, but
it only seems to want to set for certain types.

What the heck is going on? Where can I learn how to fix it?
-- 
Christopher Conforti <christopher at conforti.xyz>
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