Re: viewing embedded HTML and MIME with external viewers

[anti-spam-pranav@cisco.com (Pranav K. Tiwari)]

On Wed, 07 May 2003 19:36:11 -0700, Michael R. Wolf <MichaelRunningWolf@att.net> writes:

> Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com> writes:
>
>> Michael R. Wolf <MichaelRunningWolf@att.net> writes:
>>
>>> Can I directly launch the HTML body, or any of the attachments into an
>>> external viewer (i.e. Internet Explorer, RealPlayer, GIMP, OpenOffice,
>>> etc.)?
>>
>> Do `K e' from the summary buffer.  If the message has several parts,
>> you can use a prefix to select which part to operate on , e.g.
>>
>>       3 K e  = view the third part externally
>>
>> You can also `e' or `v' from the article buffer with point placed on
>> the MIME button.
>
> 'K e' from Subject buffer and 'e' from Article buffer both prompt in
> the minibuffer with "Save MIME part to: c:/some/default/here". Seems
> that there's some bad magic happening. In the past, if I was desperate
> enough, I'd specify a path, then go double click it from the "File
> Explorer". Not convenient, but it worked.
>
> 'v' from Article buffer prompts in the minibuffer with "Viewer?".  I
> don't know how to specify "OpenOffice" or "Quick Time" or "Internet
> Explorer".  Do you?
>
> Does this mean that I'm missing the .mailcap magic?  If so, is there a
> way to use the default WinDOS settings rather than reverse engineer
> them into a text form?
>

You are right - seems like your .mailcap is missing.  Assuming that your
internet explorer can deal with all these files correctly, you can add each
filetype into your ~/.mailcap as below. I have the following in there, and
these filetypes are shown in the "right" application. The .doc files go to
Word, .ppt goes to powerpoint etc. There might be a better way of doing
this, and if there is, hopefully someone else will chime in ..

Note that the path specified in .mailcap is DOS path, and not a Windows
path.

-p

text/common;C:\PROGRA~1\INTERN~1\IEXPLORE.EXE %s
application/msword;C:\PROGRA~1\INTERN~1\IEXPLORE.EXE %s
application/msexcel;C:\PROGRA~1\INTERN~1\IEXPLORE.EXE %s
image/jpeg;C:\PROGRA~1\INTERN~1\IEXPLORE.EXE %s
image/pjpeg;C:\PROGRA~1\INTERN~1\IEXPLORE.EXE %s
image/gif;C:\PROGRA~1\INTERN~1\IEXPLORE.EXE %s
image/bmp;C:\PROGRA~1\INTERN~1\IEXPLORE.EXE %s
application/pdf;C:\PROGRA~1\INTERN~1\IEXPLORE.EXE %s
application/ppt;C:\PROGRA~1\INTERN~1\IEXPLORE.EXE %s
application/vnd.ms-powerpoint;C:\PROGRA~1\INTERN~1\IEXPLORE.EXE %s
application/vnd.ms-excel;C:\PROGRA~1\INTERN~1\IEXPLORE.EXE %s
application/vnd.framemaker;C:\PROGRA~1\INTERN~1\IEXPLORE.EXE %s
application/x-frame;C:\PROGRA~1\INTERN~1\IEXPLORE.EXE %s
application/x-zip-compressed;C:\PROGRA~1\INTERN~1\IEXPLORE.EXE %s
application/octet-stream;C:\PROGRA~1\INTERN~1\IEXPLORE.EXE %s
video/mpg;C:\PROGRA~1\INTERN~1\IEXPLORE.EXE %s