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I receive emails with PDF attachments that have the MIME type "text/pdf". This is obviously not good, but some mail clients are doing that...
The problem is that saving such an attachment in Mutt leads to a file on the disk that cannot be opened by a PDF viewer. The file size is indeed different by a few bytes from what it should be.
How can I save such attachments?
Never come across a PDF as text/pdf, but presumably Mutt is trying to do a line ending conversion (e.g., CRLF → LF).
Easiest way to stop it would seem to be to (in the Attachments screen) edit the MIME type. By default, that's bound to ^E. Then save it.
(untested, as I've never seen a text/pdf PDF attachment.)
I use pdftotext to render PDFs in mutt.
In your ~/.mutt/muttrc define a ~/.mutt/mailcap path:
# define mailcaps
set mailcap_path=~/.mutt/mailcap:/etc/mailcap
set mailcap_sanitize
In your ~/.mutt/mailcap:
text/pdf; pdftotext %s -; copiousoutput; needsterminal; description="Adobe PDF Doc"
