Reading attachments (God forbid)

For reading .pdf attachments in the background this link is useful: http://www.spocom.com/users/gjohnson/mutt/#pdf

application/pdf;                $HOME/mutt_bgrun acroread %s; test=sh -c 'test $DISPLAY'

application/pdf;                pdftotext %s -; copiousoutput

You need this program: http://www.spocom.com/users/gjohnson/mutt/mutt_bgrun