Hi Peter, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote on Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 05:38:38PM +0100:
> During recent months I've joined some mailing lists with fairly good > signal to noise ratio on a specific topic, the only snag being that a > distressingly large number of otherwise sane messages have been > written using mail clients (fsvo) that by default bury the content in > "rich" formatting that makes it hard for old-style mail readers to > cope. Here is what i currently use; in case that doesn't work for you, you need to be more specific as to what "rich" formatting you are talking about. Yours, Ingo schwarze@iris $ cat /etc/mailcap text/html; /usr/bin/lynx -stdin -force_html -dump ; copiousoutput text/rtf; /usr/local/bin/unrtf --nopict --text %s ; copiousoutput application/pdf; /usr/local/bin/pdftotext %s - ; copiousoutput application/x-pdf; /usr/local/bin/pdftotext %s - ; copiousoutput application/msword; /usr/local/bin/antiword - ; copiousoutput application/x-shellscript; /bin/cat ; copiousoutput