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by phillc73 3400 days ago
As do I, because it's faster than browser based email and many GUI clients (like Thunderbird). I also like the fact that I can just copy across my .pinerc file to a new computer and my mail client is setup.

I had not considered the PDF issue. I just open them with an external application. The potential of reading them within Alpine hadn't occurred to me, but now it has, I want it!

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Something like:

    application/pdf;pdftotxt %s /tmp/pdftxt && less /tmp/pdftxt
In your MAILCAP file?