Mailcap selectively applying settings
Chris Green
cl at isbd.net
Thu May 12 19:51:47 UTC 2022
On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 03:38:23PM -0400, Christopher Conforti wrote:
> 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
>
I think you need:-
text/html; lynx -dump %s; copiousoutput; nametemplate=%s.html
> 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?
I think the 'copiousoutput' is explained somewhere on the Mutt web site.
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Chris Green
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