From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/60318 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Axel Jantsch Newsgroups: gmane.mail.mh-e.user,gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: How can MH-E handle application/octet-stream ? Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 13:16:15 +0200 Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm Message-ID: <200505161116.j4GBGFK2031931@bee.imit.kth.se> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1116292168 5941 80.91.229.2 (17 May 2005 01:09:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 01:09:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: mh-e-users@lists.sourceforge.net, Ding List Original-X-From: mh-e-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Tue May 17 03:09:19 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists-outbound.sourceforge.net ([66.35.250.225]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DXqZn-0006Wt-HR for gmmu-mh-e-users@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 May 2005 03:08:51 +0200 Original-Received: from projects.sourceforge.net (sc8-sf-list1-b.sourceforge.net [10.3.1.7]) by sc8-sf-spam1.sourceforge.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADB45881D6; Mon, 16 May 2005 18:09:20 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from sc8-sf-mx2-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.12] helo=sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1DXqYC-0006FF-GD for mh-e-users@lists.sourceforge.net; Mon, 16 May 2005 18:07:12 -0700 Original-Received: from mx1.kth.se ([130.237.32.140]) by sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.41) id 1DXm0x-0002bM-LK for mh-e-users@lists.sourceforge.net; Mon, 16 May 2005 13:18:35 -0700 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mx1.kth.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8252D140ECB; Mon, 16 May 2005 13:16:18 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mx1.kth.se ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mx1.kth.se [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 29207-01-42; Mon, 16 May 2005 13:16:16 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail1.imit.kth.se (mail1.imit.kth.se [130.237.212.19]) by mx1.kth.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id E309B140C08; Mon, 16 May 2005 13:16:16 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from bee.imit.kth.se (bee.imit.kth.se [130.237.212.162]) by mail1.imit.kth.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id C60D0602EB; Mon, 16 May 2005 13:16:16 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from bee.imit.kth.se (axel@localhost) by bee.imit.kth.se (8.12.8/8.11.6) with ESMTP id j4GBGFK2031931; Mon, 16 May 2005 13:16:16 +0200 Original-To: Yair Friedman In-Reply-To: Message from Yair Friedman of "Mon, 16 May 2005 13:41:27 +0200." X-Mailer: MH-E 7.83; nmh 1.0.4; GNU Emacs 21.2.1 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at kth.se Original-Sender: mh-e-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: mh-e-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net X-BeenThere: mh-e-users@lists.sourceforge.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9-sf.net Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: This list covers the use of MH-E. List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: X-Original-Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 13:16:15 +0200 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.mail.mh-e.user:1106 gmane.emacs.gnus.general:60318 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:60318 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 wrote: > On Sun, 15 May 2005 18:24:12 +0200, > Reiner Steib writes: > > > [ From the MH-E list; Added Gnus list. ] > > > > On Fri, May 13 2005, Bill Wohler wrote: > > > >> Axel Jantsch 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. > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Oracle Space Sweepstakes Want to be the first software developer in space? 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