Re: Attachments not being opened

[Kyle Wheeler <kyle-mutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Thursday, November 20 at 04:25 PM, quoth dae3:
> The files are created in /tmp and the correct command is called as 
> per /etc/mailcap. Permissions are OK, as confirmed by running the 
> command manually on the temp files.
>
> Upon further investigation, I've found that Mutt simply isn't 
> passing the file name as an argument to the command. Any insight on 
> what might trigger this kind of misbehaviour?

It depends on your mailcap lines. If your mailcap line is this:

     image/*; xv

Then what will happen is the equivalent of this:

     cat /tmp/imagefile | xv

However, if your mailcap line is this:

     image/*; xv %s

Then xv will be passed the file name as an argument; and this will 
happen:

     xv /tmp/imagefile

Make sense?

~Kyle
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