On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 12:50 PM, Michael Hannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Greetings. One of my "customers" is having a problem viewing > attachments with command-line mail clients, alpine and mutt, on a system > running Fedora 9, i386. > > The attachment type of most interest is PDF. He's been getting error > messages to the effect that the attachment is an unrecognized MIME type, > and that a given attachment could not be found. (Note that the > different error messages probably arise under different conditions, > after either his own environment or the system environment has changed > slightly.) > > In fact, PDF should be recognized: > speaking for mutt, if you have these lines in /etc/mailcap application/pdf; evince %s application/postscript ; evince %s you should view pdf attachment using evince > > # grep pdf /etc/mime.types > application/pdf pdf > > # grep pdf /etc/mailcap > application/pdf; /usr/bin/xdg-open %s > > I've been able to work around the problem by modifying /etc/mailcap to > explicitly invoke a PDF viewer, as: > > # grep pdf /etc/mailcap > application/pdf; /usr/bin/xpdf %s > > I presume I could also use evince instead of xpdf. > > The xdg-open man page states: > > xdg-open opens a file or URL in the user's preferred application. > If a URL is provided the URL will be opened in the user's > preferred web browser. If a file is provided the file will be > opened in the preferred application for files of that type. > xdg-open supports file, ftp, http and https URLs. > > When I try to use xdg-open, it ALWAYS tries to open a browser (firefox), > apparently because it's always being "fed" a URL, even for local files > (as "file://foo.bar"). I'm not sure about this. > > Also I have yet to figure out how to tell xdg-open what my "preferred > application" is. Where does it get that information? > > If you can shed any light on any of this, please let me know. > > Thanks. > > -- Mike > > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Guidelines: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines >
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