Unknown mime type

[Jim Haynes]

I have mail containing some pdf files as attachments. When I read
the mail with alpine 2.0 and try to view an attachment, it opens a
window named Evince Document Viewer and that displays an error
Unable to open document, Unknown MIME type.

How do I fix this?

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jhhaynes at earthlink dot net

[Supreet Joshi]

On Sun, 5 Oct 2008, Jim Haynes wrote:

> I have mail containing some pdf files as attachments. When I read
> the mail with alpine 2.0 and try to view an attachment, it opens a
> window named Evince Document Viewer and that displays an error
> Unable to open document, Unknown MIME type.
>
> How do I fix this?

The problem is with Evince, which is being called by pine.
Edit your ~/.mailcap to include the line :
application/pdf;/usr/bin/xpdf %s

This will mean Pine will use xpdf to read PDF file.
If you use any other PDF viewer, supply the path instead of xpdf path.

HTH.

[Jim Haynes]

On 2008-10-14, Supreet Joshi <sup...@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> The problem is with Evince, which is being called by pine.
> Edit your ~/.mailcap to include the line :
> application/pdf;/usr/bin/xpdf %s
>
> This will mean Pine will use xpdf to read PDF file.
> If you use any other PDF viewer, supply the path instead of xpdf path.
>

Thanks. I found I did not have a .mailcap file - was something supposed
to have created it? Or what else should be in there besides pdf files?

[Supreet Joshi]

I am not sure how .mailcap comes into existence, I have always found it in
my home (but I always had pine installed). Pine's config does have a field
called " mailcap path", in case you use a different mailcap file.

It should basically have the paths of all applications that you want used
to open attachments from pine. E.g:
image/jpeg;/usr/X11R6/bin/xv %s
application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet;/apps/ame/bin/soffice %s

And so on.

HTH,
Supreet.
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