On Thu, 03 May 2018, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > On 2018-05-03 08:46, leo wrote: > > > In according to this discussion [1] I use this strategy: By default I > > read html email in mutt (with elinks). When the message can not be > > handled well by elinks I hit "v", I choose the html part and I watch > > it with firefox. > > > > This is the part in my muttrc: > > > > bind attach <return> view-mailcap > > alternative_order text/plain text/html > > unauto_view * > > auto_view text/html > > > > And this the mailcap: > > > > text/html; firefox %s; > > text/html; elinks -dump %s; nametemplate=%s.html; copiousoutput > > How does mutt know to prefer the elinks entry initially?
If you have auto_view set for a file type, mutt will use a mailcap entry that has the copiousoutput option set. And only if you view the mail attachments (v) and then open the attachment (<Enter>), mutt considers other mailcap entries. See the muttrc man page for more information ;) Cheers Till