Package: alpine Version: 2.00+dfsg-2 Severity: wishlist
Quite frequently I receive emails that contain test attachments. However, those attachments are usually marked as application/octet-stream, either because the file name has no extension, or because the sending mail program is misconfigured. I would like the option to be able to view these text documents (that I *know* are text) in alpine, rather than having to save the document and fire up less. Currently alpine refuses to show the text, saying "Don't know how to display Application/OCTET-STREAM attachments. Try Save." Firefox suffers from the same problem. Making less the default handler for application/octet-stream is probably not the best solution, as some such files really *are* octet-stream, and not text. Matthew -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages alpine depends on: ii libc6 2.9-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libkrb53 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-6 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries ii libldap-2.4-2 2.4.15-1 OpenLDAP libraries ii libncurses5 5.7+20090221-1 shared libraries for terminal hand ii libpam0g 1.0.1-5 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8g-15 SSL shared libraries alpine recommends no packages. Versions of packages alpine suggests: ii aspell 0.60.6-1 GNU Aspell spell-checker ii exim4 4.69-9 metapackage to ease Exim MTA (v4) ii exim4-daemon-heavy [mail-tran 4.69-9 Exim MTA (v4) daemon with extended -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
