On Feb 09, Marco Peereboom wrote:
> Stuff crap like this in .mailcap
> text/html; /usr/local/bin/links -dump '%s'; copiousoutput; description=HTML
> Text; na metemplate=%s.html
> text/html; /usr/local/bin/links '%s'; needsterminal; description=HTML Text;
> nametemp late=%s.html
>
> I had them for all kinds of things but can't find that file anymore.
Here is mine for example. Hope it will be useful for somebody on misc@
# $Id: mailcap,v 1.15 2011/02/08 18:42:07 zinovik Exp $
application/msword ; catdoc -s koi8-r.txt %s ; copiousoutput
application/vnd.msword ; catdoc -s koi8-r.txt %s ; copiousoutput
application/excel ; xls2csv %s | sed 's/,/ /g';
copiousoutput
application/msexcel ; xls2csv %s | sed 's/,/ /g';
copiousoutput
application/ms-Excel ; xls2csv %s | sed 's/,/ /g';
copiousoutput
application/vnd.ms-excel ; xls2csv %s | sed 's/,/ /g';
copiousoutput
application/x-excel ; xls2csv %s | sed 's/,/ /g';
copiousoutput
application/octet-stream ; cat %s ; copiousoutput
application/x-bzip2 ; bzip2 -dc %s ; copiousoutput
application/x-cpio ; cpio -tvF --quiet %s ; copiousoutput
application/x-csh ; cat %s ; copiousoutput
application/x-diff-gzip ; zcat %s ; copiousoutput
application/x-gtar ; tar tvf %s ; copiousoutput
application/x-gzip ; tar tfz %s ; copiousoutput
application/gzip ; tar tfz %s ; copiousoutput
application/x-gunzip ; gzcat ; copiousoutput
application/x-latex ; cat %s ; copiousoutput
application/x-perl ; cat %s ; copiousoutput
application/x-script ; cat %s ; copiousoutput
application/x-shar ; cat %s ; copiousoutput
application/x-shellscript ; cat %s ; copiousoutput
application/x-sh ; cat %s ; copiousoutput
application/x-tar ; tar tzf %s ; copiousoutput
application/x-tar-gz ; gunzip -c %s | tar -tf - ; copiousoutput
application/x-tcl ; cat %s ; copiousoutput
application/x-tex ; cat %s ; copiousoutput
application/x-troff ; groff -Tlatin1 %s ; copiousoutput
application/x-troff-man ; man -l %s 2>/dev/null ; copiousoutput
application/x-troff-me ; groff -me -Tlatin1 %s ; copiousoutput
application/x-zip-compressed ; unzip -v %s ; copiousoutput
application/zip ; unzip -v %s ; copiousoutput
text/comma-separated-values ; cat %s ; copiousoutput
text/x-compress-html ; zcat %s | lynx -dump ; copiousoutput
text/x-gzip-html ; zcat %s | lynx -dump ; copiousoutput
text/html ; lynx -force_html -assume_charset=koi8-r
-assume_unrec_charset=utf8 -dump %s \
;
copiousoutput; nametemplate=%s.html
image/* ; anytopnm %s | pnmscale -xsize 80 -ysize
50|ppmtopgm|pgmtopbm|pbmtoascii \
; copiousoutput
> Things like antiword and stuff help. At one point I had about a
> $random_file to ascii converter for about everything.
>
> On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 05:38:38PM +0100, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote:
> > During recent months I've joined some mailing lists with fairly good
> > signal to noise ratio on a specific topic, the only snag being that a
> > distressingly large number of otherwise sane messages have been
> > written using mail clients (fsvo) that by default bury the content in
> > "rich" formatting that makes it hard for old-style mail readers to
> > cope.
> >
> > Telling people off for their choice of mail clients is not an option
> > (some at least have had that choice made for them), so as a workaround
> > I probably need to start looking around for a mail client that will
> > make reading Outlook and peers' output less painful.
> >
> > Does such a beast exist, preferably among OpenBSD packages (as in, it
> > has to run on OpenBSD, but I can build locally if needs be)?
> >
> > I've tried and hated both Evolution and Thunderbird, but surely there
> > must be other choices?
> >
> > - Peter
> > --
> > Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team
> > http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http://www.nuug.no/
> > "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic"
> > delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.
