Quoth Viktor Rosenfeld on Tuesday, 12 April 2011:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> I'm having problems opening text/html MIME attachments in Google Chrome
> (or Safari) on OS X 10.6.  (The same setup [with some different paths]
> works on a 10.5 machine, but I think OS X is not the culprit.)
> 
> I have the following mailcap (excerpt):
> 
>   text/html; ~/unix/bin/view_attachment.sh %s html
>   text/html; lynx -dump %s -display_charset=UTF-8; nametemplate=%s.html; 
> copiousoutput
>   application/MSWORD; ~/unix/bin/view_attachment.sh %s -
> 
> In my muttrc I have:
> 
>   alternative_order text/plain
>   auto_view text/html
> 
> If I view a text/html attachment it is displayed inline using lynx.
> I.e. the first mailcap entry is ignored.  (If I remove the second mailcap
> entry, then I get an error message that no mailcap entry for text/html
> is found.)
> 
> Here's the output from `mutt -d 2`:
> 
>   [2011-04-12 00:40:18] Checking mailcap file: 
> /Users/he-sk/unix/etc/mutt/mailcap
>   [2011-04-12 00:40:18] mailcap entry: 
>   [2011-04-12 00:40:18] mailcap entry: text/html; 
> ~/unix/bin/view_attachment.sh %s html
>   [2011-04-12 00:40:18] mailcap entry: text/html; lynx -dump %s 
> -display_charset=UTF-8; nametemplate=%s.html; copiousoutput
>   [2011-04-12 00:40:18] field: nametemplate=%s.html
>   [2011-04-12 00:40:18] field: copiousoutput
>   [2011-04-12 00:40:18] Checking mailcap file: 
> /Users/he-sk/unix/etc/mutt/mailcap
>   [2011-04-12 00:40:18] mailcap entry: 
>   [2011-04-12 00:40:18] mailcap entry: text/html; 
> ~/unix/bin/view_attachment.sh %s html
>   [2011-04-12 00:40:18] mailcap entry: text/html; lynx -dump %s 
> -display_charset=UTF-8; nametemplate=%s.html; copiousoutput
>   [2011-04-12 00:40:18] field: nametemplate=%s.html
>   [2011-04-12 00:40:18] field: copiousoutput
>   [2011-04-12 00:40:18] Automatische Anzeige mittels: lynx -dump 
> '/var/folders/eD/eDWR7K7FHYGftbX1EzUGBE+++TM/-Tmp-//mutt.html' 
> -display_charset=UTF-8
>   [2011-04-12 00:40:18] fill_buffer: Seen attachment marker.
> 
> The script view_attachment.sh is from here:
> http://linsec.ca/Using_mutt_on_OS_X
> 
> The script works, e.g. I can open Word or PDF files or images.
> 
> Any idea what's going on here?  Curiously, the mailcap file is checked
> twice!  If I'm opening Word or PDF files it is only checked once.
> 
> Thanks,
> Viktor

I think you need a semi-colon at the end of each line of your .mailcap.

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