Nabeel Khatri wrote: > what's the best way to view word/excel attachments? i'm running > debian linux. i've been reading that w3m seems to be the preferred > method, but i'm not sure how to get the files converted to html. This is what I do for MS .doc files. apt-get install catdoc Put the following in your ~/.mailcap file: application/msword; catdoc '%s' ; copiousoutput Then it will automatically convert doc files to plain text. Bob