In the newer versions, you'll need to use <view-mailcap> (bound to 'm' by default) to launch the viewer from the attachments menu. This change was to make it easier to use the internal pager on attachments.
On Monday, 08 November 2010 at 08:11, José Romildo Malaquias wrote: > The entries for text/html in /etc/mailcap and ~/.mutt/mailcap on my > ~amd64 Gentoo Linux system are > > $ grep ^text/html ~/.mutt/mailcap /etc/mailcap > /home/romildo/.mutt/mailcap:text/html; links %s; nametemplate=%s.html; > needsterminal; copiousoutput; description=HTMLText > /etc/mailcap:text/html; /usr/bin/lynx -force_html '%s'; needsterminal; > description=HTML Text; nametemplate=%s.html > /etc/mailcap:text/html; /usr/bin/lynx -dump -force_html '%s'; copiousoutput; > description=HTML Text; nametemplate=%s.html > > Although the entry for links does not have the field copiousoutput, it > is not being used for viewing an html attachment from the mutt > attachments menu, as it should be. Instead it is using the lynx entry. I > am using Mutt 1.5.21 (2010-09-15, Gentoo 1.5.21-r1). > > Any clues? > > Romildo