Ken Hornstein wrote in <[email protected]>: |>Thanks Ken! I'll be giving this a try! (I would have "just tried it |>myself", but I don't have any modern readers installed! Small point |>of pride, until now. :-) | |One note: you MIGHT have to have Thunderbird configured properly as a MUA |to do this (I already had this done). | |>Huh. ".eml". I've spent years using and part-time developing email \ |>clients |>and servers, and never heard of that extension. Good to know. | |I am not sure those things are standardized, but I just Googled "eml |file extension" and it seems kind of common (some results suggested it |originally came from Outlook), and I had personally seen that for a |while. Right or wrong, Apple had decided in the transition to OS X that |"file types" were determined by the filename suffix since you didn't |really have resource forks so the way things that use the OS facilities |to determine the file type will look at the file suffix. I only mention |this to say that I don't know how Thunderbird will determine a file type |on other platforms. | |I was curious and did a little bit of digging. New MIME types |that are registered with IANA can include a suggested file extension. |message/rfc822 predates that registry and the original MIME RFCs do not |specify a file extension for that type. The message/global MIME type |(a RFC822 message but with UTF-8 everywhere) has a suggested |file extension of ".u8msg", which I have never personally seen "in |the wild" anywhere. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I added .eml to the mime.types of the MUA on 2013-05-25 stating +# <http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/tika/trunk/tika-core/src/main/resources/\ +# org/apache/tika/mime/tika-mimetypes.xml> is a good place to look for a rather +# complete list of IANA registered and unregistered MIME types. --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)
