lib/PublicInbox/LEI.pm | 2 +-

diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/LEI.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/LEI.pm
index 31e6b4a8e407a01a7fb56379b480fe3078c216d8..dce8076282d1c62bcd6d182713231c0bc3852b3b 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/LEI.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/LEI.pm
@@ -731,7 +731,7 @@ 		@cmd = ($mua, '-f');
 	# TODO: help wanted: other common FOSS MUAs
 	} else {
 		require Text::ParseWords;
-		my @cmd = Text::ParseWords::shellwords($mua);
+		@cmd = Text::ParseWords::shellwords($mua);
 		# mutt uses '%f' for open-hook with compressed mbox, we follow
 		@cmd = map { $_ eq '%f' ? ($replaced = $mfolder) : $_ } @cmd;
 	}