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List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: X-Original-Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 18:24:12 +0200 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.mail.mh-e.user:1096 gmane.emacs.gnus.general:60311 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:60311 [ 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. I'm not aware of a more simple solution or workaround in Gnus. But if someone wants to implement overriding of the Content-Type, it would be nice to have it in the MIME library (mm*.el) so that MH-E and Gnus could use it. Bye, Reiner. -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- | PGP key available | http://rsteib.home.pages.de/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Oracle Space Sweepstakes Want to be the first software developer in space? Enter now for the Oracle Space Sweepstakes! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7393&alloc_id=16281&op=click