On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 11:40:25PM +0200, Tibor Pittich wrote:
> Ben, look at my first post in this thread, and if you read carefully
> (i know, my english is horrible), then you can view, that i reported
> problem with _outgoing_ mail handling mime types, not handle application
> to mime type, which i received.
And if you actually read the thread you'll note that Todd asked a
question about mailcap files which is what I was replying too.
> you can find .mailcap file in /etc/skel-eton directory. as ydou know,
> files are copied from this directory when admin create new account.
> but in fact, this was not subject of my post, if i look at this
> file, i found:
> application/msword; ns="%s"\; nf="${ns}".html\;wvHtml "${ns}" >"${nf}"\; netscape
>-remote 'openURL(file:'"${nf}"')' \; sleep 2 \; rm "${nf}"
> this is funny, because user, who doesn't have installed wvHtml and
> netscape package cannot view file with this mime type, but this .mailcap
> file is in his newly created home directory by default...
Ineed that mailcap entry should be removed...
> if i return back to my first post in this thread, i reported situation,
> when i have installed on machine mutt, postfix and ssh package only (for
> example), and with default config (or custom) i cannot properly define
> mime type for _outgoing_ message, because system doesn't have any
> mime.types file, and _any_ binary file is marked as text/plain or
> application/octet-stream (depends on configuration) and this is
> surely not something we want.
Well you weren't really clear on what the issue was...
> please, next time you would like to argue about my posts again, keep it
> on topic or simply don't reply. this subthread about .mailcap file is
> completely off topic.
Before you starting getting on peoples case please read the entire
thread.
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