Re: viewing pdf from mutt - procmail question?

["J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)" <jhm@cistron.nl>]

On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 16:47:38 -0400, Lee Bradshaw wrote:
> I can view pdf attachments from mutt if they have mime headers like
> 
>  Content-Type: application/pdf; name="file.pdf"
> 
> However I get quite a few emails with
> 
>  Content-Type: application/octet-stream
> 
> Does anyone have a reliable way for modifying the Content-Type and
> changing octet-stream to a useable type (pdf in this case)?

I'd approach this in a different way (besides educating people about the
proper use of MIME types of course):
create a viewer script for application/octet-stream which saves its input in
a temporary file, runs
	file -b thetempfile | magic2mime
to determine the proper MIME type, and then view it using the "see" program
from mime-utils.

HTH,
Ray
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