Pine and multimedia mails

• Pine uses external helper applications to display multimedia files (attachments)

• Pine consults mailcap to select application (also your personal ~/.mailcap) e.g:

  • image/jpeg; xv %s; test=test -n "$DISPLAY"

• If MIME type unknown pine selects one according to file suffix from mime.types e.g:

  • audio/wav wav

• Please communicate missing mailcap or mime.types entries to uco@ifh.de