[Users] Some Message Part 'Open With' Dialogs Missing 'Remember This' Option

[Paul]

On Sun, 8 Sep 2019 22:40:46 +0600
Dustin Miller <dustbiz at gmail.com> wrote: 

> DM: I also noticed that after choosing 'Remember this' for the
> 'message/rfc822' part, that mime association doesn't show up in the
> /etc/mailcap file, but it does result in the creation of a ~/.mailcap
> file and then shows up in there.

That's because /etc/mailcap is owned by root and the user running claws-mal
can't write to /etc/mailcap.

> However, if I add a similar entry to
> the ~/.mailcap file for the text/plain mime type, in Claws that part
> still doesn't show the 'Remember this' option and also doing a straight
> 'Open' doesn't behave as it should if that entry had actually taken
> effect.

That's because you configure the text editor (for text/plain) explicitly in
claws-mail: /Configuration/Preferences/Message View/External Programs

with regards

Paul