mutt + .mailcap: problem

Rainer Dunker rainer.dunker@web.de
Tue Oct 16 08:46:00 GMT 2001


Hello experts,

on my system, mutt seems to ignore the .mailcap contents. I've tried
this with a .mailcap file with the following contents (but it applies
to other test configurations as well):

text/html; lynx %s

(The file is read from a binary mount, and the line ends with a LF
only.) When I open a mail containing a text/html attachment, mutt
displays the error message "mailcap entry for type text/html not
found". The output from running mutt with strace proves that it really
has read the .mailcap file (I can provide the strace log if necessary).

The problem does not occur with the mutt on my Linux box. I've
searched this mailing list and mutt documentation available on the web
but not found any hint. Can you tell me what I'm doing wrong?

Thans for any help!

Regards,

Rainer


P.S. mutt -v on cygwin yields:

Mutt 1.2.5i (2000-07-28)
[...]
System: CYGWIN_NT-5.0 1.3.3(0.46/3/2) [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="/var/spool/mail"
SHAREDIR="/usr/share"
SYSCONFDIR="/etc"
-ISPELL


P.P.S. The same on the Linux machine:

Mutt 1.3.12i (2000-11-27)
Copyright (C) 1996-2000 Michael R. Elkins and others.
[...]
System: Linux 2.4.0-4GB [using ncurses 5.2]
Compile options:
-DOMAIN
+DEBUG
-HOMESPOOL  -USE_SETGID  +USE_DOTLOCK  -DL_STANDALONE
+USE_FCNTL  -USE_FLOCK
+USE_POP  +USE_IMAP  -USE_GSS  +USE_SSL  -USE_SASL
+HAVE_REGCOMP  -USE_GNU_REGEX
+HAVE_COLOR  +HAVE_START_COLOR  +HAVE_TYPEAHEAD  +HAVE_BKGDSET
+HAVE_CURS_SET  +HAVE_META  +HAVE_RESIZETERM
+HAVE_PGP  -BUFFY_SIZE -EXACT_ADDRESS  -SUN_ATTACHMENT
+ENABLE_NLS  -LOCALES_HACK  +HAVE_WC_FUNCS  +HAVE_LANGINFO_CODESET
++HAVE_LANGINFO_YESEXPR
+HAVE_ICONV  -ICONV_NONTRANS  +HAVE_GETSID  +HAVE_GETADDRINFO
ISPELL="/usr/bin/ispell"
SENDMAIL="/usr/sbin/sendmail"
MAILPATH="/var/mail"
SHAREDIR="/usr/share/mutt"
SYSCONFDIR="/etc"
EXECSHELL="/bin/sh"
-MIXMASTER

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