On 2023-12-11 08:16:30 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> 2) When *receiving* email, mutt will use the sender's MIME type label
> to decide how to deal with the attachment.
But the notion of filename extension is even used in this context too.
Quoting the Mutt manual:
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nametemplate=<template>
This field specifies the format for the file denoted by %s in
the command fields. Certain programs will require a certain
file extension, for instance, to correctly view a file. For
instance, lynx will only interpret a file as text/html if the
file ends in .html. So, you would specify lynx as a text/html
viewer with a line in the mailcap file like:
text/html; lynx %s; nametemplate=%s.html
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This is due to
> 3) Many other programs besides mutt will also use file extensions to
> determine how to deal with input files.
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