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Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE writes:

> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> 
>   > I don't think Gnus should try to understand proprietary flags created
>   > by other programs.
> 
> Hm.  I wanted to suggest the following behavior:
> 
> If there is an entry in the .mailcap file which Gnus doesn't understand
> at all, pretend it wasn't there.
> 
> I'll have to check with the user to see what actually happened with the
> entry present.  I think Gnus currently does something different with the
> entry than without.

  The fact that there was an empty 'viewer' section is probably what
confused it.  Did Gnus try to launch '' as the viewer by chance?

-Bill P.