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Re: opening pdf attachments



Am 2003-11-19 12:31:13, schrieb Tom Koornwinder:
>Some pdf attachments I receive under mutt (on Sun/solaris),
>I can immediately view by doing return on the appropriate line describing the
>attachment: it opens the pdf file in acroread.
>With some other pdf attachments this lets me only view the code.
>
>For instance, here is the start of a pdf attachment which did not open
>in a proper way:
>
>--=====001_Dragon154418242456_=====
>Content-Type: application/octet-stream;
>       name="ZhanLiang-Resume(general).pdf"

>Is there a way around that I can open all received pdf attachments
>from within mutt?

I use procmail and a filter. If it detect a .pdf file it looks for 
the Content-Type and corect it to application/pdf.

>               Tom Koornwinder
>               thk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Greetings
Michelle

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