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On Thursday, August 30 at 05:46 PM, quoth Jonas Jacobsson:
> Hi fellow Mutt users,
Howdy!
> How have you solved the problem with viewing attached pdf documents
> withing Mutt? I just discovered pdftohtml and pdftotxt and will start
> digging on how to use them.
Meh. I have a computer with one of them fancy whatchamacallem...
graphical interfaces. Just 'cuz email is best in mutt doesn't mean
pdf's are (in fact, they aren't).
> Since a pdf file is an octetstream I can't just use .mailcap since
> that is dependant on the document type specified in the MIME header,
> right? (Only looking for octetstream will cause alot of other document
> types to be viewed with the same tool.)
Poppycock! You need to read your muttrc man page more carefully! From
the documentation:
mime_lookup type[/subtype] [ ... ]
unmime_lookup type[/subtype] [ ... ]
This command permits you to define a list of "data" MIME
content types for which mutt will try to determine the actual
file type from the file name, and not use a mailcap(5) entry
given for the original MIME type. For instance, you may add
the application/octet-stream MIME type to this list.
Then mutt will recognize that the filename of the attachment ends in
.pdf, will see in your mime.types file (either in /etc/mime.types or
~/.mime.types) that the pdf extension means application/pdf, and will
use the mailcap entry for application/pdf!
People have been using mutt to deal with the wiles of electronic mail
for a long long time... ;)
~Kyle
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