Re: one strange problem in mutt
On 2004-05-26, Kresten Kjeldgaard <gathond@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 01:35:21PM +0200, bing yu wrote:
>
> > when i attache a MS doc file in my outgoing mail. the doc file can
> > display properly in mutt(the outgoing mail Fcc to sent mailbox)
> >
> > but mutt can not display doc when i got doc attachment from others.(as a
> > matter of fact, this application is really important to me, say, i want
> > say what the document my peers sent to me is )
> >
> > anyone can give me any tricks?
> >
>
> One thing I have observed in the past is that many email clients sends
> attachments with just the mime type application/octet-stream, so it
> might be worth checking if the .doc attachments you recieve from other
> people actually matches the mimetype in your .mailcap file.
>
> I remember finding a shell script somewhere on google that attempted to
> guess the correct program from the filename (like windows does) which
> could then be used in .mailcap for application/octet-stream attachments.
Or one can just upgrade to mutt-1.5.x which handles these
attachments automatically.
HTH,
gary
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Gary Johnson | Agilent Technologies
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