On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 10:38:15AM +0000, Glyn Kennington wrote: > Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > > > what do i need to do so that the desired application will open with the >attachment? > > > xpdf has the correct mailcap entries that it should start automatically if > > > you ask mutt to ``view-attach''. This command is (by default) bound to > > > <Return> when you're in the attachments screen. > > okay. i tried that. no luck. it opens a text reader with a lot of irrelevant >characters. > > Is this text reader in the existing terminal (ie. the one that mutt's > running on) or a new terminal that pops up?
opens within mutt. no new terminal. > > > could you possibly tell me more about mailcap entries? > > Well, `man mailcap' first. will do this also. i actually searched mutt manual for mailcap. it is also fairly exhaustive - and tiring. and understood quite a bit! but not enough for me to do it on my own. (this was before i got this message) > > Things you can do: If you have any pdf files saved, type `see filename.pdf' > and see what happens. works perfectly! opens xpdf and the file > > Can you look in /etc/mailcap and /etc/mime.types for any occurrence of > "pdf", and tell me what you find? (Also see if you have your own ~/.mailcap > and ~/.mime.types files.) there is no ~/.mailcap or ~/.mime-types. here is what i found on /etc/mailcap and /etc/mime: /etc/mailcap application/pdf; /usr/bin/xpdf '%s'; test=test "$DISPLAY" != ""; description=Portable Document Format; nametemplate=%s.pdf image/pdf; display '%s'; test=test -n "$DISPLAY" application/pdf; kghostview '%s' -caption "PS/PDF Viewer" ;test=test "$DISPLAY" != "" image/pdf; konqueror '%s'; test=test "$DISPLAY" != "" && test=expr `gs --version` ">=" 3.51 >/dev/null 2>&1 application/pdf; konqueror '%s'; test=test "$DISPLAY" != "" && test=expr `gs --version` ">=" 3.51 >/dev/null 2>&1 /etc/mime.types application/pdf pdf > > moreover, is there a more generalized way of handling attachments? for instance, >if the > > attachment is of type pdf, open xpdf with that attachment and if the attachment is >of type > > mp3, open xmms with that attachment, etc. > > This is what mailcap is for. (A very simple example: When some idiot sends you > a mail in html, and you try to view the attachment with <Return> from the > attachments screen, does a browser get started to view the message?) well, i have not been lucky enough to get a mail in html so far - or is it that i did not notice it? :) > > i will like to use | to change this default behavious. for instance, if i want to >open an > > mp3 file not with xmms but with mpg321, i will like to pipe it to mpg321 etc > > Piping is possible for some applications, but not all. I think mpg321 will > read from stdin, but for some apps, if you don't want the default behaviour, > you'll have to save the file and run the command yourself. i think i am slowly getting a hang of it thanx again! sandip p deshmukh ------***-------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
