On 0, Russ Pitman <rjp@belle.apana.org.au> wrote: > To those who replied .Many Thanks,you stirred the mud betwwen my ears:-)) > > The attachment was telling mutt it was an 'application octet-stream'. > > Adding a line > > application/octet-stream; /usr/bin/acroread '%s' etc etc > > in /etc/mailcap worked fine That's a little dangerous, isn't it? application/octet-stream can be almost anything non-ASCII. It sounds like your suppliers are using a broken mailer. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide "Intellectual freedom is not the freedom to believe anything, but the freedom to believe only the truth." - Dr. John Stott Get my GPG public key: https://pinky.its.adelaide.edu.au/~tkcook/tom.cook-at-adelaide.edu.au
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