On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 02:04:09AM +0200, Mikko Hänninen wrote:
> 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.
>
Thanks! I found mutt.octet.filter from
http://titan.cs.bonn.edu/~rosenfel/mutt/octet-filter
It's a shell script, I changed the ShowTIF() function from using
tiffinfo to viewfax, and it works great!
To use it, I put the following entry in my ~/.mailcap
application/octet-stream; mutt.octet.filter %s; copiousoutput
but I ignored the auto_view since I want to view the actual fax not only
the output from tiffinfo.
That's it! now when I go into the attachment, I can just press enter and
viewfax pops up :)
Yifang
>
> Hope this helps,
> Mikko
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