Subject: Problem with reading attachments by Pine

From: "SEDIGHY M." <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 01:21:21 GMT

Hi,

I am a new user of pine on UNIX. Sorry if this has been already
discussed  or seems very trivial.

I have recieved an e-mail sent to me using PCpine. It has one
attachment. When I try to view the attachment, I get an error 
message saying " VIEWER RESULT sh: hd: not found". Can somebody
pleaese tell me what is wrong and how I can view the attachment.

By the way, I have also tried ELM. I get the same message.

Thanks in adavnce 

M. Sedighy

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From: Rudolf Kompf <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 11:16:01 +0100 (MET)

On Wed, 6 Nov 1996, SEDIGHY M. wrote:

-> Hi,
-> 
-> I am a new user of pine on UNIX. Sorry if this has been already
-> discussed  or seems very trivial.
-> 
-> I have recieved an e-mail sent to me using PCpine. It has one
-> attachment. When I try to view the attachment, I get an error 
-> message saying " VIEWER RESULT sh: hd: not found". Can somebody
-> pleaese tell me what is wrong and how I can view the attachment.
-> 
-> By the way, I have also tried ELM. I get the same message.
-> 
-> Thanks in adavnce 
-> 
-> M. Sedighy
-> 
Inspect your ~/.mailcaps file: The attachment obviously has the mime-type
application/octet-stream and the standard viewer specification there is 
"hd". You can edit the line in the  ~/.mailcaps to call the wanted
command. (Do you know which data are in the mime-encoded attachment?)

It seems to be better the sender uses a mime-type for data-encoding
(see the ~/.mime.types file) which fits the content: image/gif, text/html ...

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