Re: [Mutt] #3460: view-attachments menu "view-attach" command uses auto_view for all text attachments, even when a suitable interactive command is in the mailcap file. This is particularly bad for text/html attachments.

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#3460: view-attachments menu "view-attach" command uses auto_view for all text
attachments, even when a suitable interactive command is in the mailcap
file.  This is particularly bad for text/html attachments.
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  Reporter:  ajschorr  |       Owner:  mutt-dev                                
      Type:  defect    |      Status:  reopened                                
  Priority:  major     |   Milestone:                                          
 Component:  mutt      |     Version:  1.5.20                                  
Resolution:            |    Keywords:  mutt_needs_mailcap text/html view-attach
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Changes (by garyjohn@â):

  * status:  closed => reopened
  * resolution:  wontfix =>


Comment:

 {{{
 On 2010-10-12, Mutt wrote:

 I'm not advocating either side of the main discussion, but I wanted
 to point out that that last statement is not true.  There are
 several situations in which I need--or find it useful--to read
 text/plain attachments from the attachment menu.  One is where a
 multipart/alternative message has text/plain and text/html parts,
 alternative_order is set to display the text/html part in the pager,
 but the text/html part is empty or corrupt.  Another is where a
 message has several parts that need to be converted from some other
 type (e.g., Word) to text to be read in the pager and that
 conversion takes a long time.  Reading the text/plain part of the
 message from the attachment menu avoids that conversion time.

 Regards,
 Gary
 }}}

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