28-Mar-02 at 09:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote : > I know how to read Word and RTF files using things like catdoc, unrtf, > and so on. But all of these do either Word or RTF but not both. > In an ideal world the MIME type and the filename extension would > always be right. But I have recieved some email where an RTF file > has a '.doc' extension and an 'application/msword' mime type (probably > because of the extension). Other than educating the other user, > what is best way to handle this? I just want to dump the file > to the terminal as plain text.
If MIME types are broken, then you need something like mime magic http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/libgnome/gnome-gnome-mime.html or something along those lines - basically, peeking into the contents of the file's headers to find out what it really is. Then you have to hack a new MIME type into the headers of the email with procmail so that it works properly, because AFAIK Mutt will just obey .mailcap - or maybe you can hack .mailcap itself but I don't know. I *think* Mutt reads mailcap when you try to view an attachment, so maybe you can dynamically hack mailcap. Lots of hacking needed. Simon. -- [Simon White. vim/mutt. [EMAIL PROTECTED] GIMPS:58.86% see www.mersenne.org] /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign \ / Respect for open standards X No HTML/RTF in email / \ No M$ Word docs in email
