<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 12:50 PM, Michael Hannon <<a href="mailto:jm_hannon@yahoo.com">jm_hannon@yahoo.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Greetings. One of my "customers" is having a problem viewing attachments with command-line mail clients, alpine and mutt, on a system running Fedora 9, i386. The attachment type of most interest is PDF. He's been getting error messages to the effect that the attachment is an unrecognized MIME type, and that a given attachment could not be found. (Note that the different error messages probably arise under different conditions, after either his own environment or the system environment has changed slightly.) In fact, PDF should be recognized: </blockquote><div> speaking for mutt, if you have these lines in /etc/mailcap application/pdf; evince %s application/postscript ; evince %s you should view pdf attachment using evince </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> # grep pdf /etc/mime.types application/pdf pdf # grep pdf /etc/mailcap application/pdf; /usr/bin/xdg-open %s I've been able to work around the problem by modifying /etc/mailcap to explicitly invoke a PDF viewer, as: # grep pdf /etc/mailcap application/pdf; /usr/bin/xpdf %s I presume I could also use evince instead of xpdf. The xdg-open man page states: xdg-open opens a file or URL in the user's preferred application. If a URL is provided the URL will be opened in the user's preferred web browser. If a file is provided the file will be opened in the preferred application for files of that type. xdg-open supports file, ftp, http and https URLs. When I try to use xdg-open, it ALWAYS tries to open a browser (firefox), apparently because it's always being "fed" a URL, even for local files (as "file://foo.bar"). I'm not sure about this. Also I have yet to figure out how to tell xdg-open what my "preferred application" is. Where does it get that information? If you can shed any light on any of this, please let me know. Thanks. -- Mike -- fedora-list mailing list <a href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com">fedora-list@redhat.com</a> To unsubscribe: <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list</a> Guidelines: <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines" target="_blank">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines</a> </blockquote></div>