Re: How can MH-E handle application/octet-stream ?

[Axel Jantsch <axel@imit.kth.se>]

The gnus-mime-view-part-as-type would be what I would love to have, I
guess. But it is not available in the MH-E buffer now.

So the right thing would be to make the gnus-mime-view-part-as-type
functionality available as a command and key stroke from the MH-E
folder buffer?

Regards
Axel

Yair Friedman <yairfr@icts-tech.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 15 May 2005 18:24:12 +0200, 
> Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:
> 
> > [ From the MH-E list; Added Gnus list. ]
> >
> > On Fri, May 13 2005, Bill Wohler wrote:
> >
> >> Axel Jantsch <axel@imit.kth.se> writes:
> >>> I often get a pdf file (or other well known file types) with
> >>> application/octet-stream mime type. In MH-E such an attachment is
> >>> displayed as
> >>>
> >>> [2. Maj.pdf --- application/octet-stream; Maj.pdf]
> >>>
> >>> Although this is obviously a pdf file, MH-E does not know about it
> >>> and does not start a pdf reader.
> > [...]
> >> MH-E uses gnus to render its multimedia bits. I imagine that Gnus uses
> >> the Content-Type header field, not the Content-Disposition field
> >> (which contains the filename), for determining what viewer to use.
> >
> > Yes.
> >
> >> I've always just saved these files and launched gpdf separately, but I
> >> agree that's a pain.
> >
> > In Gnus, you can use `v gpdf %s RET' on the button to launch gpdf.
> >
> >> Perhaps a mechanism already exists, or perhaps they would be willing
> >> to put in a workaround. If so, please share it with us on mh-e-users
> >> mailing list. 
> 
> Usually in those cases I use gnus-mime-view-part-as-type which is bound to
> Key "t" on the attachment button. Most of the time Gnus guesses
> correctly the right type (based on extension?), if not auto-completion
> works well enough.  
> 


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