Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 14:01:59 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: ay@sita.kiev.ua Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Example mime.types, and mailcap for mutt? Message-ID: <20020206220159.EDCF95D0D@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 06 Feb 2002 23:38:29 %2B0200." <200202062138.XAA64050@sima.sita.kiev.ua>
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> Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 23:38:29 +0200 (EET) > From: ay@sita.kiev.ua > Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > In article <20020206201226.GD18171@hades.hell.gr.lucky.freebsd.questions> you wrote: > > On 2002-02-06 11:07, stan wrote: > >> I'm moving to mutt for my mail reader, and I was wondering if anyone would > >> be kind ennough to share a copy of these files that are tweaked for FreeBSD > >> program locations? > >> > >> I'm installing it on both FreeBSD, and Debian. Debian supplies some > >> examples, but the paths etc are all wrong for FreeBSD. > > > Well, here's my ~/.mailcap file: > > > image/*;xloadimage -view '%s' > > text/html;lynx -force_html -nocolor -dump %s;copiousoutput > > application/x-tar-gz;gzip -cd '%s' | tar tvf -;copiousoutput > > application/x-perl;cat -v;copiousoutput > > application/postscript;/usr/X11R6/bin/ghostview '%s' > > text/plain;;x-mozilla-flags=internal > > > Here's a sample line from /usr/local/etc/mime.types too: > > > [keramida@home /home/keramida]$ grep perl /usr/local/etc/mime.types > > application/x-perl pl pm > > > > The file /usr/local/etc/mime.types has been installed at the correct place > > by the mutt-devel port for me: > > > [keramida@home /home/keramida]$ pkg_info -W /usr/local/etc/mime.types > > /usr/local/etc/mime.types was installed by package mutt-devel-1.3.25_2 > > It's all nice, but how to manage application/octet-stream ? > I do often receive msword attachments, labeled as octet-stream. > > More : catdoc fails to show nsworld files with exocic charsets. If they are just labeled as "application/octet-stream", the sender messed up. They should be "application/msword". I believe some versions used a bogus application type for all Office documents, but application/octet-stream is wrong as it only says that the file contains undefined binary data. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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