On Tuesday, 01 March 2011 at 00:07, Jeremie Le Hen wrote: > Hi, > > I've recently updated mutt to version 1.5.21 using FreeBSD ports. I > used to look my text/html attachments using a text-based web browser, > but it stopped working when simply hitting "Enter" (<view-attach> > function), that is I just see the HTML content in mutt's pager. My > ~/.mailcap still works when I hit "m" (<view-mailcap> function). > > Is anyone able to explain this behaviour? I've skimmed through the > manual about mailcap, but I didn't see setting that could explain this > behaviour. Something is unclear to me though: the description of the > <view-attach> function states "view attachment using mailcap entry _if > necessary_". When is it necessary?
The change was made so that the pager would work the same way on a single attachment that it does on the whole message (previously, there was no way to get the default pager view for this scope). If there's an autoview for a mime type, it will be used on the attachment unless you use view-mailcap. A different change in 1.5.21 allows all text parts to be viewed without mailcap (e.g., so that you don't have to define a separate viewer for text/patch), and this is what's causing the behavior you're seeing. It's somewhat controversial: http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3496 http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3246
