On 2012-11-19, Suvayu Ali wrote: > Hi, > > I often get attachments with completely wrong MIME types. For example > today I received a pdf and a doc file as application/octet-stream. Is > there anyway to bypass my mailcap and ask mutt to open the attachment > with the proper application? So in this particular case, I would want > to open the pdf file with evince and the doc file with LibreOffice. > > Thanks for any hints,
For application/octet-stream attachments, put this in your muttrc: mime_lookup application/octet-stream That tells mutt to determine the correct MIME type by looking up the file name extension in your mime.types file Regards, Gary