[Alpine-info] CentOS 6 upgrade breaks JPEG attachment viewer

[David Forrest]

On Sun, 19 Feb 2012, Roger Davis wrote:


>

> Hi Dave,

>

> Thanks, I just finished looking through your sample mailcap and octet-stream 

> examples.

>

> It would seem (see my previous response to Eduardo's message) that my biggest 

> problem here is that not knowing much about how mail works I have no idea 

> where these components (as they currently exist on my system) all came from, 

> i.e., were they installed by alpine or CentOS? How would I know if I am using 

> the mailcap or octet-stream that has been used with alpine?

>

> I assume that your mailcap example I should install as ~/.mailcap (after

> modifying it as desired). Where would your octet-stream example file

> get installed?

>

> Thanks!

>


Roger, my original mailcap was installed in /etc/mailcap by the the 
re-alpine install (actually pine, years ago) routines and I modified it 
there as the link shows to use as the global default.  The distributed 
file is included with the re-alpine source package under the doc/ 
directory as mailcap.unx, or in my setup as 
/home/drf/src/re-alpine-2.02/doc/mailcap.unx.

Several attachments came through as octet-stream and I wrote the 
octet-stream script to handle them.  I keep it in /usr/local/bin/ along 
with most other general binaries.  This script is the one I played with 
the most over the years and it has some old dead code snippets throughout. 
But it should work.

http://www.maplepark.com/~drf/consults/octet-stream.html
Dave

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