On Mon, 8 Jun 2009, Matthew Wakeling wrote:
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."
Me, too. I pipe things to cat and then I can use alpine's built-in pager.
I'll think what can be done about this. If you feel like digging into the
alpine code to help look, that'd be awesome.
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.
Agreed, but off-topic for this bug. (-;
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