On Thu, Mar 05, 2020 at 01:25:54PM -0800, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote: > On Thu, Mar 05, 2020 at 01:40:53PM -0600, Derek Martin wrote: > > Personally, I don't care about this feature TBH, but if I did, the way I > > would expect that it worked was that Mutt provided sane defaults > > (perhaps compiled in, or at least part of the system Muttrc), and > > optionally, users could override those if they found it necessary. > > It does look like the default system Muttrc file contains some attachments > defaults. Perhaps the packager supplied their own Muttrc without those > lines. > > Consus, what does `mutt -v` report for the lines: > SYSCONFDIR="...." > PKGDATADIR="....: > and see if there is a Muttrc file in one of those directories? If so, see > if there are any 'attachments' lines in there.
It works if I add 'attachments +A /*.*' line to ~/.config/mutt/muttrc. My distro (Gentoo) has very minimal /etc/mutt/Muttrc, but there is a /etc/mutt/Muttrc.dist file that looks like doc/Muttrc.