on Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 05:57:14AM -0600, Bud Rogers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wednesday 21 November 2001 05:42 am, Jussi Ekholm wrote:
> > Amen. Once I tried Mutt, I really couldn't switch for anything > > else - Mutt seems to cover *all* the aspects I expect from MUA; > > and you mentioned most of them, already. :-) Although, if one > > wants to configure Mutt to behave just the way he/she likes, it > > requires work and manual reading... but - what wouldn't you do > > to have a brilliant MUA behaving exactly the way you want it to?-) > > How does it handle sending and receiving attachments? Especially > attachments from M$ MUA's? Depends somewhat on the attachment. In general, quite well. Default action is to indicate attachments, which can be viewed from the 'attachments' screen with a 'v' keybinding. From here, you can view attachments via one of the handling systems, I'm not quite sure which is used, possibly the system mailcap (/etc/mailcap). I tend to overload my systems with utilities, and find that the handlers invoked by mutt aren't my first choice. You can also specify inline viewers, particularly for formats such as MS Word and HTML. These use the auto_view option to invoke a handler. I use one of the .doc-to-text converters -- screw all that formatting crap -- to dump a straight ASCII rendering, though other options exist. If you don't have a convenient handler, it's straightforward to save the file to disk and invoke an application on it. OpenOffice does a bang-up job on virtually all MSFT file formats. Note that the compatibility equation is controlled by MSFT though, and that they can (and have) changed formats arbitrarially to break compatibility. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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