Hi Alex, On Mon, Jul 09, 2012 at 02:02:39PM +0200, Alexander Volovics wrote: > On Mon, Jul 09, 2012 at 11:37:37AM +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote: > > > How does one handle attachments? I saw the pipe command and tried to > > pipe a pdf file to Evince, but it didn't seem to work as I had expected. > > Do I need an old school viewer like gv for this to work? It's also > > possible I didn't specify the command properly. I get a lot of > > pdf/ps/eps/png attachments, so this is crucial need for me. > > You could do something like the following: > Create in ~/ the files .mime.types and .mailcap > > ~/.mime.types > application/pdf pdf > > ~/.mailcap > application/pdf; evince %s; test=test -n "$DISPLAY" > application/pdf; pdftotext %s %s.txt \; cat %s.txt \; rm -f %s.txt ; > copiousoutput > > then edit ~/.muttrc and add: > auto_view text/html message/* application/pdf > > If I didn't make any mistake you should get a text rendering > of the pdf directly in mutt (for a quick look). > I you want to see the pdf in evince hit 'v', select the pdf > and hit 'enter'. >
Opening the attachement part works wonderfully! I didn't seem to see a preview, but then it could be because the pdf was a beamer presentation with lots of plots. Thanks a lot. :) -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
