Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> ha escrit: > In order to guess the content-type, I am using these functions. It > appears that Perl's `mimetype' works so much better than `file', for > example it will give tell for .gpg file that it is pgp encrypted, but > `file' will tell it is application octet stream.
That depends only on the set of "magic" files your installation of "file" is using (/etc/file/magic). > Overall I am replacing some `mutt' based functions with `mail' and > that works well so far. But `mutt' on the command line in batch mode > does recognize the attached file's content type while `mail' does not. > > I understand that `mail' is asking for the content-type to be provided > by user, though question is if some mechanism exists in C libraries > that the content-type gets automatically recognized if not supplied on > the command line? Yes, mailutils provides mailcap functions designed expressly for that purpose. It would be nice to modify mail to use them. Regards, Sergey
