Re: Attachments not being opened

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On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:09:09 -0600, Kyle Wheeler
<kyle-mutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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?


Absolutely, thank you. I was missing the "%s" escapes in my mailcap
file.

Now the real mystery is how it could work until a few days ago.
Something must have messed /etc/mailcap, I suspect.


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