On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 04:33:39PM -0500, Louis LeBlanc wrote: > On 11/26/01 10:21 PM, Patrik Modesto sat at the `puter and typed: > > Hi, > > I often get mail with attachement like this: > > > > begin 666 Studie.doc > > MT,\1X*&Q&N$`````````````````````/@`#`/[_"0`&```````````````! > > M````/P``````````$ ``00````$```#^____`````#X```#_____________ > > M____________________________________________________________ > > > > <snip> > > > > ` > > end > > > > It is sent from MSOE and it looks like that, only when the user forwards > > interesting messages to someone else. When sending new composed mail, > > attachement looks right and is recogniced by mutt. I think, this is not > > a valid form of attachement. > > > > What can be wrong? > > Looks like a M$ Word attachment. You have to edit the mailcap file and > tell it how to handle these attachments. You might want to take a look
But this attachment doesn't have any application/... signature. It is completely inline. What line should I add in mailcap? > at third party apps for Mutt (look in the archives, or maybe someone > can repost the URI? I don't remember it offhand). At the mutt page, > you can take a look at mutt pages by mutt users. There are lots of > very cool things you can do to have almost any kind of attachment > handled and viewable automatically - if you want. > > Mutt will do most anything you need or want it to do, but the front > end work can be a long process. Get using it, and find out how to > solve each problem when it gets to the point where it's worth the > while to search mutt.org and the list, etc. I don't think I can ever > use another MUA, but I still haven't gotten all the rough edges > smoothed out completely. > > BTW, if you want to view Word Docs inline, there are useful links > directly from Mutt regarding configuration. The 3rd party app you want > is wv, I think. Used to be wordview, but it changed a while back. No. I don't want to view MS word document inline. It could by nice to show this file in attachments submenu, for easy saving. Patrik > > HTH > Lou > -- > Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) > http://www.keyslapper.org ÔżÔŹ > > Steinbach's Guideline for Systems Programming: > Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle.
