On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 12:21:06AM -0800 or thereabouts,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello, folks. I'm new to mutt, so you'll have to bear with me if I ask
> stupid questions.
>
> Sometimes when I receive mail from other users, I'm unable to read it in
> mutt. I would have thought that it was just some weird MIME type, but that
> doesn't seem to be the case.
Can you read it in other mailers?
> I know this is kind of a vague question, but I guess what I'm looking for is
> some pointers to help me start trouble-shooting this problem. Is there a
> known buglist somewhere I could double-check? I'm at wit's end.
Well, there's one you can find by poking around www.mutt.org. It's
http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/mutt/bugs.html -- but it was
last updated six months ago. The most recent entries are for
mutt 0.96.3. There's been quite a few versions since then :)
I would try reading it with other mailers, and try saving it and
seeing whether I can use a pager like 'more' on it. If, from the
index, you hit 'v' to view attachments, it should tell you what
MIME types the attachments are, too. Checking your mimetypes file(s),
both system (eg, perhaps /etc/mime.types) and local (I don't bother so
I forget what most people call this one) might throw something up.
If you don't have an entry for that particular mimetype, there are
pages (again, from www.mutt.org) which have sample mimetypes which
are huge. You might find a suitable entry in those.
Does 'unable to read' mean you get a message about it being
unsupported, or you view something that looks like random ASCII
garbage, or what?
Telsa
