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Linux Desktop Hacks: View Word and PDF Files From Within Mutt

Overview Mutt is an extremely powerful terminal-based email client that supports IMAP, POP, and much more. No graphical email client can come close to the configurability of Mutt. That's why a lot of hard-core Linux users still use Mutt in spite of the myriad GUI-based email clients. It is certainly possible to launch a GUI application such as OpenOffice.org or Acrobat Reader to view Word and PDF email attachments in Mutt. But Mutt users aren't always using a graphical desktop, so it's handy to be able to view these documents as text, right inside the message itself.

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Publisher	O'Reilly Media	File Format	PDF
Date Published	March 2005	Downloads	1
Format	Book chapters
Topics	Linux - Open Source, Word Processing, E-Mail Client

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