RE: Viewing encoded attachments
> On 2003-10-27, David Fishburn <fishburn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Mutt 1.4.1i on Linux RH9
> >
> > When I am reading a message with an attachment, I have to do the
> > following:
> >
> > Hit |
> > Pipe to command: uudecode -o - | less
> >
> > I had assumed setting:
> > :set pipe_decode=yes
> >
> > Would allow me to run:
> > Pipe to command: less
> >
> > But it doesn't.
>
> If the uuencoded portion is really an attachment, setting
> pipe_decode should work fine. Sometimes, however, a
> uuencoded file is simply included in the message body, not as
> a MIME attachment, and in that case you will have to
> explicitly pipe the body through uudecode. Mutt trusts the
> MIME headers and doesn't go looking inside the message parts
> for uudecoded blocks.
Yes, you were right, it was part of the message instead of an
attachment.
Thanks for the response.
Dave