--- a/src/sampleconf/mimeview
+++ b/src/sampleconf/mimeview
@@ -117,13 +117,23 @@
image/x-xpmi = gwenview %f
image/x-nikon-nef = ufraw %f
-# Opening mail messages not always works.
+# Opening mail messages:
# - Thunderbird will only open a single-message file if it has an .eml
# extension
# - "sylpheed %f" seems to work ok as of version 3.3
-# - claws-mail: no can do apparently
# - "kmail --view %u" works
+# - claws-mail: works using a small intermediary shell-script, which you
+# set as the viewer here. You need to have at least one account inside
+# claws-mail, so that it creates ~/Mail/inbox. Script contents example
+# follows. Using 1 is probably not a good idea if this is a real account
+# (here I am using a bogus one, so that I can overwrite anything inside
+# inbox at will):
+# #!/bin/bash
+# cp $1 ~/Mail/inbox/1
+# claws-mail --select ~/Mail/inbox/1
+# rm ~/Mail/inbox/1
message/rfc822 = thunderbird -file %f
+
text/x-mail = thunderbird -file %f
application/x-mimehtml = thunderbird -file %f