When I attach an excel file, its mime type is automatically set to "application/excel", while recipient has no problem (they use outlook), my mailcap has not associate that with any spreadsheet program, thus mutt cannot open it. My question is how does mutt determine mime type when adding attachment so that I could change that for excel file to "application/vnd.ms-excel" which seem recognised by both gnumeric and openoffice.
relevant portions of my /etc/mailcap application/vnd.ms-excel; gnumeric '%s'; edit=gnumeric '%s'; description="MS Excel spreadsheet"; test=test -n "$DISPLAY"; nametemplate=%s.xls application/x-excel; gnumeric '%s'; edit=gnumeric '%s'; description="MS Excel spreadsheet"; test=test -n "$DISPLAY"; nametemplate=%s.xls application/x-ms-excel; gnumeric '%s'; edit=gnumeric '%s'; description="MS Excel spreadsheet"; test=test -n "$DISPLAY"; nametemplate=%s.xls application/x-msexcel; gnumeric '%s'; edit=gnumeric '%s'; description="MS Excel spreadsheet"; test=test -n "$DISPLAY"; nametemplate=%s.xls application/x-xls; gnumeric '%s'; edit=gnumeric '%s'; description="MS Excel spreadsheet"; test=test -n "$DISPLAY"; nametemplate=%s.xls application/x-dos_ms_excel; gnumeric '%s'; edit=gnumeric '%s'; description="MS Excel spreadsheet"; test=test -n "$DISPLAY"; nametemplate=%s.xls application/vnd.ms-excel.sheet.macroEnabled.12; soffice -no-oosplash -calc '%s'; edit=soffice -no-oosplash -calc '%s'; test=test -n "$DISPLAY"; description="Office Open XML Spreadsheet with Macros Enabled"; nametemplate=%s.xlsm application/vnd.ms-excel.template.macroEnabled.12; soffice -no-oosplash -calc '%s'; edit=soffice -no-oosplash -calc '%s'; test=test -n "$DISPLAY"; description="Office Open XML Spreadsheet Template with Macros Enabled"; nametemplate=%s.xltm application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet; soffice -no-oosplash -calc '%s'; edit=soffice -no-oosplash -calc '%s'; test=test -n "$DISPLAY"; description="Office Open XML Spreadsheet"; nametemplate=%s.xlsx application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.template; soffice -no-oosplash -calc '%s'; edit=soffice -no-oosplash -calc '%s'; test=test -n "$DISPLAY"; description="Office Open XML Spreadsheet Template"; nametemplate=%s.xltx application/vnd.lotus-1-2-3; soffice -no-oosplash -calc '%s'; edit=soffice -no-oosplash -calc '%s'; test=test -n "$DISPLAY"; description="Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet"; nametemplate=%s.123 application/vnd.ms-excel; soffice -no-oosplash -calc '%s'; edit=soffice -no-oosplash -calc '%s'; test=test -n "$DISPLAY"; description="Microsoft Excel Document"; nametemplate=%s.xls application/msexcel; soffice -no-oosplash -calc '%s'; edit=soffice -no-oosplash -calc '%s'; test=test -n "$DISPLAY"; description="Microsoft Excel Document"; nametemplate=%s.xls -- regards, ==================================================== GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3
