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Re: how to view MS files within mutt?



On 2005-12-22 at 10:24 +0800, phyrster wrote:
> Thank you. I put these two lines in my .mailcap but I still got the message
> " [-- application/octet-stream is unsupported (use 'v' to view this part)
> --]"

The problem here is that the mail sender has not indicated the type of
the attachment.  "application/octet-stream" means "some data with no
known structure".

Go into the attachment menu ("view-attachments" binding, probably 'v'),
then edit mutt's idea of the type of the attachment with the "edit-type"
binding, probably Control-E.  Replace application/octet-stream with
application/msword and _then_ try to view the attachment.
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