On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 03:48:57PM -0800, Denis Perelyubskiy wrote:
> hello,
>
> i just got mail, its a jpeg image, but it comes under
> application/octet-stream. if i save it, then view with xv,
> it works fine. however, i would like to tell mutt to use a
> mailcap entry for this. i do have image/jpg, etc entries in
> mailcap. also, i think it would be a bad idea to define
> application/octet-stream to be handled by xv.
>
> the question is, is it possible to tell mutt to view this
> particular attachment using some random mailcap rule?
>
> also, if there is a better way of handling attachments, what
> is it?
There are a couple of external programs available that you can use as
your application/octet-stream viewer. They analyze the attachment and
invoke the appropriate actual viewer. This is explained in more detail
here, along with links to the programs:
http://www.spocom.com/users/gjohnson/mutt/default.htm#octet
There is also a patch available that enables mutt to do the viewer
selection internally, but I don't have the details handy.
Gary
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Gary Johnson | Agilent Technologies
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