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## 5.1.1. Viewing MIME messages in the pager

When you select a message from the index and view it in the pager, Mutt decodes the message to a text representation. Mutt internally supports a number of MIME types, including `text/plain, text/enriched, message/rfc822, and message/news`. In addition, the export controlled version of Mutt recognizes a variety of PGP MIME types, including PGP/MIME and application/pgp.

Mutt will denote attachments with a couple lines describing them. These lines are of the form:

> `

>     [-- Attachment #1: Description --]
>     [-- Type: text/plain, Encoding: 7bit, Size: 10000 --]

> `

Where the `Description` is the description or filename given for the attachment, and the `Encoding` is one of `7bit/8bit/quoted-printable/base64/binary`.

If Mutt cannot deal with a MIME type, it will display a message like:

> `

>     [-- image/gif is unsupported (use 'v' to view this part) --]

> `

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