Dealing with bad MIME types

2001-12-26 Thread Philip Mak 

Someone sent me an attachment called designview.jpg with MIME type of
application/octet-stream. Since it wasn't image/jpg or image/jpeg,
mutt didn't know how to view it correctly.

How could I have made mutt treat that as image/jpg (by making it look at
the filename extension, perhaps) despite the incorrect MIME type?

Re: Dealing with bad MIME types

2001-12-26 Thread Gary Johnson 

On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 11:49:19PM -0500, Philip Mak wrote:
 Someone sent me an attachment called designview.jpg with MIME type of
 application/octet-stream. Since it wasn't image/jpg or image/jpeg,
 mutt didn't know how to view it correctly.
 
 How could I have made mutt treat that as image/jpg (by making it look at
 the filename extension, perhaps) despite the incorrect MIME type?

Currently, you have to use an external program or a patch to do this.
For information on some external programs, see

http://www.spocom.com/users/gjohnson/mutt/#octet

I don't have the information on the patch handy.

Gary

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