On 0, Russ Pitman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To those who replied .Many Thanks,you stirred the mud betwwen my ears:-)) > > The attachment was telling mutt it was an 'application octet-stream'. > > Adding a line > > application/octet-stream; /usr/bin/acroread '%s' etc etc > > in /etc/mailcap worked fine
That's a little dangerous, isn't it? application/octet-stream can be
almost anything non-ASCII.
It sounds like your suppliers are using a broken mailer.
Tom
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