Re: Help with decoding attachemnts viewed with pdftotext

[Martin Rubey]

Sébastien Vauban <wxhgmqzgwmuf@spammotel.com> writes:

> Hi Martin,
>
> Martin Rubey wrote:
>> I'm reading my mail on a remote machine using ssh in a (text only)
>> terminal, which mostly works extremely well.
>>
>> I frequently get pdf attachments, and I find it extremely helpful
>> that they are automatically displayed in the article buffer. (There
>> is a message saying Viewing with pdftotext %s -)
>
> I can't help your for your problem, but I'd be interested by knowing
> which settings you have to make the above a reality (seeing PDF
> attachments as text, automagically). Could enlighten me?
>
> Does it work as well for DOC, XLS and PPT?

not here, but I think it's customizable.  You need to have the programs
installed, of course.  The variable to look at is mailcap-mime-data.  It
is not customizable, but see

http://www.gnus.org/manual/emacs-mime_30.html

Martin