Re: more on howto decode (or more FUBAR mails?)

[Toby <tobia.conforto@xxxxxxxx>]

Henry Nelson wrote:
> The mime information section before the attachment looks like:
>    Content-Type: application/msword;
>            name="my doc.doc"
> 
> BUT the first few lines of the raw attachment viewed in nvi looks like
> the following.  Isn't that a rich text file, and not a Word document?

Shame on Microsoft clients for using the wrong MIME type.
That's indeed a RTF file, of type text/rtf.

Solution #1: educate your correspondents not to send you mail with
stupid attachments, moreso ones with the wrong mime type.

Solution #2: write an exception for this particular case yourself.
Something like:

.mailcap:
        application/msword; doc-or-rtf; copiousoutput

bin/doc-or-rtf:
        #!/bin/sh
        f=`mktemp`
        cat > $f 
        antiword $f || 
          unrtf $f | w3m -ppc 10 -T text/html -no-cookie -dump -s
        rm $f

Put your favorite rtf- and doc-to-text converters there.


Toby

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