Two mutt issues

Igor Pechtchanski pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu
Fri Dec 26 11:49:00 GMT 2003


On Wed, 24 Dec 2003, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:

> > I have two problems using mutt on cygwin:
> > 1. I've used this mailcap file:
> > application/*; cygstart %s
> > image/*; cygstart %s
> > text/*; cygstart %s
> > video/*; cygstart %s
> >
> > But it doesn't seem to work, when I try to open a Word attachment it says
> > it's corrupted. When I save it and open it from the explorer it looks OK.
>
> I'd bet this one is a text/binary issue, but I've not looked into it.
> My guess would be that the text/binary logic that I added for saving is
> being bypassed somehow during save-to-temp-then-viewing.

'cygstart' should use the file extension association in Windows to view
the file...  Does mutt save temp files with proper extensions?

To the OP: try copying the temp file and renaming it to the proper
extension, and then run cygstart on it.  Also try mounting /tmp in binary
mode.
	Igor
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