Bob Proulx <[email protected]> writes:
>
> What mail-user-agent are you using where this configuration is
> advantageous?

It was to make "run-mailcap --action=cat" work on text/plain.

> The text/plain mailcap is already loaded with other entries such as
> on my system:

Notice they're all either needsterminal or $DISPLAY, whereas the "cat"
program is a copiousoutput.

> The run-mailcap command is in the mime-support package.  Perhaps this
> issue would be better discussed within the mime-support package
> project rather than about coreutils?

Perhaps, though it seemed to me reasonably clear the cat program could
be sensibly given an entry of the kind described in fact already in the
mailcap(5) man page.  mime-support generates a few things of its own
making, but mainly leaves entries to the package containing the program.


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