Re: Suggestion: Handle Application/PDF just like image attachments

Kolbjørn Barmen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.pine.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 31 May 2006, Bert Driehuis wrote:

> On Tue, 30 May 2006, Matt Ackeret wrote:
> 
> > Suggestion: for Mac OS X, handle Application/PDF attachments just like image
> > attachments.  That is, let me hit return and it "just works". PDFs will open
> > in Preview just like images will.
> 
> I never use the image viewer (I save attachments to a scratch directory and
> manually fire up the appropriate viewer). However, the help file says:
> 
>     OPTION: Image-Viewer
> 
>     This option specifies the program Pine should call to view MIME
>     attachments of type IMAGE (e.g. GIF or TIFF).  The Image Viewer setting
>     is no longer needed, but remains for backward compatibility.  The more
>     general method for associating external printing and viewing programs
>     with specific MIME data types is to use the system's (or your personal)
>     "mailcap" configuration file.

But pine never seemed to care about my entry for mime-type "*/*" :P


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Kolbjørn Barmen
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