Re: Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap

From	David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap
Date	2021-09-19 06:50 +0200
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On Thu 16 Sep 2021 at 05:37:43 (-0500), Nate Bargmann wrote:
> * On 2021 15 Sep 21:36 -0500, David Wright wrote:
> > I think what your system is doing is as follows:
> > 
> > You probably have in your (default) /etc/Muttrc:
> 
> In my case, /etc/neomuttrc, and the following does exist.
> 
> My assumptions have been that the system RC is ignored when a user's RC
> exist.  I am finding this is not entirely true in all cases.

I can't speak for neomutt, but mutt has started by reading /etc/Muttrc
(unless you tell it not to, with -n) ever since it entered Debian in
hamm (1998). Being read after Muttrc, your own .muttrc can overwrite
mutt's defaults.

There are programs that behave in the way you suggested;
for example, xpdf comes to mind.

> Thanks for the helpful pointers through the maze!
> 
> The problem is that I visit something like this once about every several
> years and it's all new again.  Sigh...

Yes, same here, which is partly why I tried tracking it through.
I actually have a ~/.mutt/mailcap-mutt defined that matches only
a very select set of file types.

Cheers,
David.

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Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2021-09-15 15:40 +0200
  Re: Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap Jonathan Dowland <jon+debian-user@dow.land> - 2021-09-15 17:50 +0200
    Re: Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2021-09-15 20:00 +0200
      Re: Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-09-15 20:20 +0200
        Re: Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2021-09-15 20:20 +0200
        Re: Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-09-15 21:20 +0200
          Re: Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2021-09-15 23:30 +0200
            Re: Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-09-16 04:40 +0200
              Re: Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-09-16 08:30 +0200
              Re: Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2021-09-16 12:40 +0200
                Re: Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-09-19 06:50 +0200
        Re: Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap Jonathan Dowland <jon+debian-user@dow.land> - 2021-09-16 09:50 +0200
          Re: Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-09-16 11:10 +0200
          Re: Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-09-16 13:50 +0200
            Re: Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap Jonathan Dowland <jon+debian-user@dow.land> - 2021-09-18 00:30 +0200
  Re: Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-09-16 09:40 +0200
    Re: Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2021-09-16 12:10 +0200

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