On Thu 16 Sep 2021 at 05:37:43 (-0500), Nate Bargmann wrote: > * On 2021 15 Sep 21:36 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > I think what your system is doing is as follows: > > > > You probably have in your (default) /etc/Muttrc: > > In my case, /etc/neomuttrc, and the following does exist. > > My assumptions have been that the system RC is ignored when a user's RC > exist. I am finding this is not entirely true in all cases.
I can't speak for neomutt, but mutt has started by reading /etc/Muttrc (unless you tell it not to, with -n) ever since it entered Debian in hamm (1998). Being read after Muttrc, your own .muttrc can overwrite mutt's defaults. There are programs that behave in the way you suggested; for example, xpdf comes to mind. > Thanks for the helpful pointers through the maze! > > The problem is that I visit something like this once about every several > years and it's all new again. Sigh... Yes, same here, which is partly why I tried tracking it through. I actually have a ~/.mutt/mailcap-mutt defined that matches only a very select set of file types. Cheers, David.