>It's very likely that when I was doing this it was nmh 1.6 that was >running here. And the things I remember needing to add was a >different mimetype for pgp signatures and a whole host of mimetypes >for things that that supposedly generated 'internet business cards, >and calendaring information', a bad idea whose time I think has come >and gone. But for a while everybody seemed to be sending me one, >and everybody had their own idea as to what the name of the mimetype >was.
Alright, this makes a little more sense now. In general, nmh should have just ignored content it couldn't display. But I believe what was happening with that particular release was that there was a fallback entry in the Debian nmh configuration for things like "application" or "text" that didn't match any other rule and it wanted to use run-mailcap on it, and maybe that was failing due to a missing mailcap entry. Also, we've improved MIME handling for 1.7. Like I said people would have to check current Debian systems for what it is doing now. I guess I just wanted to correct the assertion that nmh uses a mailcap file; it does not, except for some certain Debian releases. --Ken
