How can I interpret MIME-encoded email attachments using text-based mailreaders on the CS unix systems?
Processing mime attachments with textual mail clients (that is, clients which do not have native multimedia display capabilities) has always been somewhat of a challenge. All of the clients use the mailcap(5) facility, and reference the system mailcap (/lusr/share/etc/mailcap) after reading your own private mailcap which can override the defaults (~/.mailcap). If you use mush, you’ll want to add the following line to your .mailrc or .mushrc file: set metamail=’metamail -p’ Pine and mutt are already setup to use these mailcap files properly by default.
