On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 09:26 +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: > Yes, but in his OP he said he was using "mutt"! Not until later on... And in that case, it appears that file associations were something dependent on the application trying to use them. It just goes to show that it is important to say how and where you're trying to open files. What opens a file in Firefox might well be different from Nautilus from Konqueror, etc. There isn't one all-purpose control centre for it. -- (This box runs FC6, my others run FC4 & FC5, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.