>> There's no HARM in you putting entries there. But nmh doesn't read that >> file either. > >Which raises the question - what is getting into the path so when Laura >adds entries to /etc/mailcap, things start working for her?
That's ... a good question. First, it's not that I don't believe Laura. But ... I have some questions about this. Like, exactly WHAT MIME types could you not view until you added them? Were they text types? I ask because there are simply NOT that many text types. There actually aren't that many MIME types in general, and I'm wondering what ones you couldn't view and how long ago you had to add them. Secondly ... I knew this had come up before. Here's the earlier message where this came up: https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/nmh-workers/2015-03/msg00009.html The short answer is FOR DEBIAN ONLY, the distribution of nmh was at the time configured in mhn.defaults to use a program called "run-mailcap", and I guess that uses the mailcap file. This had a poor interaction with some types and nmh 1.6, but Alexander Zangerl (who is the Debian nmh maintainer) said he was going to improve that, so I don't know what the situation is under 1.7. Ralph suggested that there weren't any Debian-specific changes in that regard, but you'd need to look at the mhn.defaults file on your system to see the details. --Ken
