Hello, Thanks for the reply.
> Sorry, no. Mailing lists are mailing lists. > Participation is expected, not > just one way communication. Actually, the custom is to reply to the person and CC to the list :-) > I don't use auto_view or any settings in my muttrc and the mailcap works > fine Interesting... > however if you set it explicitly look at use_mailcap I can't find any reference to use_mailcap in the muttrc or man muttrc - where is it please? > Could be a permissions issue with mutt being unable to read the mailcap > file of course. That's what I thought, but i'm running everythign as user ian, which is who owns .mailcap: [ian@buzz:~]$ ls -la .mailcap -rw-r--r-- 1 ian users 30 Apr 10 14:19 .mailcap Thanks Ian