diff --git a/mutt-1.5.21-mailcap.diff b/mutt-1.5.21-mailcap.diff
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b25328c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mutt-1.5.21-mailcap.diff
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+read /usr/share/mutt/mailcap as fallback by default. This allows to
+set some useful defaults specifically for mutt. For example
+text/html
+Index: mutt-1.5.21/init.c
+===================================================================
+--- mutt-1.5.21.orig/init.c
++++ mutt-1.5.21/init.c
+@@ -3011,8 +3011,8 @@ void mutt_init (int skip_sys_rc, LIST *c
+     MailcapPath = safe_strdup (p);
+   else
+   {
+-    /* Default search path from RFC1524 */
+-    MailcapPath = safe_strdup ("~/.mailcap:" PKGDATADIR "/mailcap:" SYSCONFDIR "/mailcap:/etc/mailcap:/usr/etc/mailcap:/usr/local/etc/mailcap");
++    /* Default search path from RFC1524 plus fallback for mutt specific defaults */
++    MailcapPath = safe_strdup ("~/.mailcap:" PKGDATADIR "/mailcap:" SYSCONFDIR "/mailcap:/etc/mailcap:/usr/etc/mailcap:/usr/local/etc/mailcap:" SYSCONFDIR "/mutt/mailcap");
+   }
+ 
+   Tempdir = safe_strdup ((p = getenv ("TMPDIR")) ? p : "/tmp");
diff --git a/mutt.changes b/mutt.changes
index f317685..1ba6b2f 100644
--- a/mutt.changes
+++ b/mutt.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Nov 18 08:15:09 UTC 2014 - lnussel@suse.de
+
+- handle text/html by default (bnc#899712)
+  that is add patch mutt-1.5.21-mailcap.diff
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Mar 17 13:24:35 UTC 2014 - meissner@suse.com
 
diff --git a/mutt.mailcap b/mutt.mailcap
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2cd65c7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mutt.mailcap
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+# render html mail with w3m
+text/html; w3m -I %{charset} -T text/html -dump %s; copiousoutput
diff --git a/mutt.spec b/mutt.spec
index fdc9a0a..30304eb 100644
--- a/mutt.spec
+++ b/mutt.spec
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ Url:            http://www.mutt.org
 Provides:       muttssl
 Obsoletes:      muttssl
 Recommends:     smtp_daemon
+Recommends:     w3m
 %if 0%{?suse_version} > 1130
 Requires(post):   shared-mime-info
 Requires(postun): shared-mime-info
@@ -79,6 +80,7 @@ Source5:        skel.muttrc
 Source6:        krb5-config
 Source7:        mutt-1.5.21.de.po
 Source8:        %name-%version-patches.tar.bz2
+Source9:        mutt.mailcap
 Patch:          %name-%version.dif
 # http://www.spinnaker.de/mutt/compressed/
 Patch1:         patch-%version.rr.compressed.1.bz2
@@ -103,6 +105,8 @@ Patch15:        widechar.sidebar.dif
 Patch16:        mutt-1.5.21-cariage-return.path
 # PATCH-FIX-SUSE: bnc#868115 - CVE-2014-0467: mutt: crash due to malicious email
 Patch17:        mutt-CVE-2014-0467.patch
+# PATCH-FIX-OPENSUSE bnc#899712 - fallback mailcap for e.g text/html
+Patch18:        mutt-1.5.21-mailcap.diff
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
 %global         _sysconfdir %{_sysconfdir}
 
@@ -136,6 +140,7 @@ done
 %patch15 -p0 -b .widechar.sidebar
 %patch16 -p0 -b .crlf
 %patch17 -p1 -b .cve.2014.0467
+%patch18 -p1 -b .mailcap
 
 cp doc/Muttrc Muttrc.SuSE
 cp %{S:2} .
@@ -240,6 +245,7 @@ install -m 644 %{SOURCE3} %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/pixmaps/
 mkdir -p %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/applications
 install -m 644 %{SOURCE4} %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/applications/
 install -D -m 644 %{SOURCE5} %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/skel/.muttrc
+install -D -m 644 %{SOURCE9} %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/mutt/mailcap
 %suse_update_desktop_file mutt
 
 #%fdupes %{buildroot}
@@ -272,6 +278,7 @@ install -D -m 644 %{SOURCE5} %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/skel/.muttrc
 %{_mandir}/man5/muttrc.5.gz
 %{_mandir}/man5/mbox_mutt.5.gz
 %{_datadir}/mutt
+%{_datadir}/mutt/mailcap
 %config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/Muttrc
 
 %changelog