The Mutt E-Mail Client : Mutt's MIME Support
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## 5. Mutt's MIME Support

Quite a bit of effort has been made to make Mutt the premier text-mode MIME MUA. Every effort has been made to provide the functionality that the discerning MIME user requires, and the conformance to the standards wherever possible. When configuring Mutt for MIME, there are two extra types of configuration files which Mutt uses. One is the `mime.types` file, which contains the mapping of file extensions to IANA MIME types. The other is the `mailcap` file, which specifies the external commands to use for handling specific MIME types.

### 5.1. Using MIME in Mutt

  5.1.1. Viewing MIME messages in the pager
  5.1.2. The Attachment Menu
  5.1.3. The Compose Menu

### 5.2. MIME Type configuration with `mime.types`

### 5.3. MIME Viewer configuration with `mailcap`

  5.3.1. The Basics of the mailcap file
  5.3.2. Secure use of mailcap
  5.3.3. Advanced mailcap Usage
  5.3.4. Example mailcap files

### 5.4. MIME Autoview

### 5.5. MIME Multipart/Alternative

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