Re: Problem Viewing MIME Part

[Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com>]

Michael R. Wolf <MichaelRunningWolf@att.net> writes:

> /
> | application/ms-word; start %s
> | application/* start "" %s
> \

The last entry doesn't look right.  It should probably be:

   application/*; start %s

But I wouldn't recommend it.  It opens all sorts of security problems
-- you are in effect telling Gnus to behave nearly as insecurely as
Outlook Express with regard to attachments.

In general, you should only include specific entries in .mailcap, and
only for viewers that you know are safe.

> [2. application/pdf; Schebel, p1.pdf]...
>
> Pressing CR on the button, produced this message in the minibuffer,
> but does not display the file in a viewer.
>
> Displaying gv -safer "c:/DOCUME~1/toshiba/LOCALS~1/Temp/emm.1360eqi/Schebel, p1.pdf"...

It means that Gnus is trying to display it with Ghostscript.  You want
a viewer installed on you box instead, probably Acrobat Reader.  You
do this by adding something like this to your .mailcap:

   application/pdf; C:/programs/some/where/acroread.exe %s

Back to HTML -- how do you want to view it?  In an external browser?
Inside Gnus rendered with w3, lynx, links, w3m or html2text?

The last option is the least sophisticated (html2text is a pretty
simple converter), but it should work out-of-the-box because
everything needed is included with Gnus.  You can try it with:

    (setq mm-text-html-renderer 'html2text)