On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 09:17:34AM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > -- Emma Jane Hogbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > (on Tuesday, 18 March 2003, 07:59 AM -0500): > > > > More information on the situation...I noticed the attachment line in > > "v"iew doesn't have the right info... > > > A 2 Program.pdf [applica/octet-stre, base64, 170K] > > Things that do work have applica/whateveritis > > > > All of my PDF attachments have octet-stream...is that because it's not > > reading from mailcap or something else? > > Okay, that explains a lot. Grab the following script: > http://www.davep.org/mutt/mutt.octet.filter.pl > > make it executable, and put the following line in your .mailcap: > application/octet-stream; /path/to/mutt.octet.filter.pl %s; copiousoutput
or, insert > mime-lookup application/octet-stream application/pdf and if you want to autoview it, also insert > auto-view application/pdf into your .muttrc In my case there was no correspondening application/pdf in /etc/mailcap file, so, if you also use the xpdf-utils pdftotext to view your pdf files, you could put > application/pdf; /usr/bin/pdftotext %s; copiousoutput; description="Adobe Portable Document Format";nametemplate=%s.pdf in one line, into /usr/lib/mime/packages/xpdf-utils (and i should fill a bug ? report against xpdf-utils) and run "update-mime" or intro your .mailcap read more about MIME Lookup with > lynx /usr/share/doc/mutt/html/manual-5.html#ss5.6 Greetings, Felix. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
