Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 20:07:08 +0100 From: "Frank Shute" <frank@esperance-linux.co.uk> To: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: MIME and mailcap Message-ID: <20060905190708.GA18393@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <F5DBDF90DC8B3E3DC0F57D61@utd59514.utdallas.edu> References: <F5DBDF90DC8B3E3DC0F57D61@utd59514.utdallas.edu>
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On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 12:07:42PM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote:
>
> I'm trying to understand the use of mailcap for MIME translation within a
> mail client. I installed mail/metamail, which created a .mailcap file in
> my home directory. That file appears to be a copy of the run-mailcap
> script. But what does it do? It seems like it does nothing.
>
> What I'm trying to do is get the mail client to open an image viewer when I
> double-click on a jpeg attachment. The mail client is designed to source
> the mailcap file from /etc/, /usr/local/etc/ and from ~/.mailcap.
>
> What am I missing here? What's the best/proper way to do this?
>
Put this in ~/.mailcap:
application/x-gzip;/usr/local/bin/zless %s
text/html;/usr/X11R6/bin/firefox %s
application/pdf;acroread %s
application/postscript;gview %s
image/gif;xv %s
image/jpeg;xv %s
image/png;xv %s
There are some others you may find useful. I use mutt.
--
Frank
echo "f r a n k @ e s p e r a n c e - l i n u x . c o . u k" | sed 's/ //g'
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