Yifang Dai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Sun, 06 Feb 2000:
> [-- Attachment #2: aaaeoth9.tif --]
> [-- Type: application/octet-stream, Encoding: base64, Size: 22K --]
> I know I can use 'v' and 's' to save it to disk first, and I also know I
> can change the attachment content type by '^E', but I want mutt to
> recognize the correct mime types automatically and then I can just type
> 'v' then 'enter' to launch viewfax. Is there anyway to accomplish this?
The problem isn't in the receiving (Mutt) end, but rather the sending
end. The sending email client should properly indicate that the file is
of the MIME-type image/tiff. Then Mutt will recognise it appropriately.
As a work-around, you can install a filter to handle all
application/octet-stream type attachments. I remember seeing one
offered somewhere, a perl(?) script that supposedly did a fairly good
job at handling all the various different attachments sent with a
MIME-type like that. I'm guessing it can probably be found linked on
www.mutt.org.
Anyway, the above is just a work-around, not a fix to your situation.
Fix the sending end, and your problem will go away.
Hope this helps,
Mikko
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