On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 01:59:32PM +0530, V. Suresh wrote:
> I was a mutt fan while I was using Linux at home. Now at
> work place, I've configured mutt for windows. But I'm unable
> to configure mail cap entries.
> Even though I keep the mime.types and mailcap files under my
> HOME directory, still, mutt says no mailcap entry found.
> I want to open .doc, .xls files using Word and Excel, respectively,
> but I'm unable to configure the mail-cap entries. Please help.
> Anybody using Mutt under windows here??
I spent the better part of an afternoon trying in vain to
configure mailcap for mutt under Cygwin. I tried numerous
variants (eg, using either DOS-style or Cygwin-style pathnames)
and made a detailed posting to the list last month (see below)
but there were no responses.
So there are at least two of us with this problem now.
Any others?
Tom
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Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 17:11:16 +0200
From: Thomas Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Mutt Users' List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: No matching mailcap entry...
User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i, Unixmail for Windows 0.6
Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dear all,
I am having trouble configuring "mailcap" to do anything
at all. I am configuring Mutt 1.2.5i on Cygwin (see mutt -v
output below), and it seems to run normally in other respects
-- at any rate, I can read, send, and receive messages.
When I run:
mutt -F c:/cygwin/unixmail/users/tbaker/muttrc -f test-file
Mutt correctly reads:
1) c:/cygwin/unixmail/users/tbaker/muttrc, which sources
2) c:/cygwin/unixmail/etc/Muttrc
In _both_ muttrc and Muttrc (alternately), I have tested the following:
set mailcap_path="c:/cygwin/unixmail/etc/mailcap"
set mailcap_path="/cygdrive/c/cygwin/unixmail/etc/mailcap"
set mailcap_path="/unixmail/etc/mailcap"
where c:/cygwin/unixmail/etc/mailcap consists of just one test line:
application/msword; less %s
Yet when I run
mutt -F c:/cygwin/unixmail/users/tbaker/muttrc -f test-file
and try to call up an attachment of "Content-Type: application/msword",
confirming that the type is "application/msword", Mutt tells me "No
matching mailcap entry found. Viewing as text."
I have spent the better part of three hours checking and re-checking
the pathnames, Content-Type:, dependencies between configuration files,
etc -- even on different test-files -- and am at a loss as to where
the problem could lie. Am I overlooking something obvious?
Tom
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output of mutt -v
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Mutt 1.2.5i (2000-07-28)
Copyright (C) 1996-2000 Michael R. Elkins and others.
Mutt comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `mutt -vv'.
Mutt is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; type `mutt -vv' for details.
System: CYGWIN_NT-5.0 1.3.10(0.51/3/2) [using ncurses 5.2]
Compile options:
-DOMAIN
-DEBUG
+HOMESPOOL -USE_SETGID +USE_DOTLOCK +USE_FCNTL -USE_FLOCK
-USE_IMAP -USE_GSS -USE_SSL -USE_POP -HAVE_REGCOMP +USE_GNU_REGEX
+HAVE_COLOR +HAVE_PGP -BUFFY_SIZE -EXACT_ADDRESS -ENABLE_NLS
SENDMAIL="no"
MAILPATH="spool"
SHAREDIR="/cygdrive/f/home/projects/unixmail/build/mutt/local/lib/mutt"
SYSCONFDIR="/cygdrive/f/home/projects/unixmail/build/mutt/local/etc"
-ISPELL
To contact the developers, please mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
To report a bug, please use the muttbug utility.
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Dr. Thomas Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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