Hello, I have been trying to make mutt open pdf files from the view-attachment dialog.
I am using a Debian buster (Linux beapc 4.19.0-8-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.98-1 (2020-01-26) x86_64 GNU/Linux) with Mutt 1.10.1 (2018-07-13). I was trying to make it open evince to view pdf files. It does not seem to recognize the mime type. I tried the same steps I followed with my Debian testing laptop (there the problem was a bit different since it opened pdf files but with calibre). Anyway I edited /etc/mailcap.order adding the line (it is the only line): org.gnome.Evince:application/pdf I ran (as root) the command "update-mime" that gave no error messages. Now in my /etc/mailcap file the first entry is application/pdf; evince %s; test=test -n "$DISPLAY" In my /etc/mime.types I have a line entry for pdf like this application/pdf pdf If I run the command "mutt -nF /dev/null -Q mailcap_path" to see the path it uses to find mailcap entries I get this output mailcap_path="~/.mailcap:/usr/share/mutt/mailcap:/etc/mailcap:/etc/mailcap:/usr/etc/mailcap:/usr/local/etc/mailcap" I don't have a .mailcap file in my home directory. There is no other mailcap file among those listed aside from /etc/mailcap. Still when I have a mail with a pdf attachment and I see at the bottom of the message in the attachment part [-- application/pdf is unsupported (use 'v' to view this part) --] I press v. I see the application/pdf attachment. Then if I hit Enter I get this message "No matching mailcap entry found. Viewing as text." If I press "m" I get this error message "mailcap entry for type application/pdf not found". I don't understand why since I do have an application/pdf entry. Anyone has any clues and can help me? I did search a lot without getting to an answer (actually I did manage to solve the problem on laptop, but not this one in buster). I might be missing something very obvious. Thanks in advance, beatrice
