Re: mime type when adding attachment
On 2008-11-03, bill lam wrote:
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.
Chapter 5 of the manual deals with MIME:
http://www.mutt.org/doc/devel/manual.html#mimesupport
In particular, 2. MIME Type configuration with mime.types
(http://www.mutt.org/doc/devel/manual.html#mime-types) says:
When you add an attachment to your mail message, Mutt searches
your personal mime.types file at ${HOME}/.mime.types, and then
the system mime.types file at /usr/local/share/mutt/mime.types
or /etc/mime.types
The mime.types file consist of lines containing a MIME type and
a space separated list of extensions. For example:
application/postscript ps eps
application/pgp pgp
audio/x-aiffaif aifc aiff
[...]
You can change the MIME type that Mutt assigns to an attachment by
using the edit-type command from the compose menu (default: ^T).
[...] or by modifying the mime.types file.
Regards.
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Re: mime type when adding attachment
On 2008-11-03, bill lam wrote: On Mon, 03 Nov 2008, Christian Mongeau wrote: Chapter 5 of the manual deals with MIME: http://www.mutt.org/doc/devel/manual.html#mimesupport In particular, 2. MIME Type configuration with mime.types (http://www.mutt.org/doc/devel/manual.html#mime-types) [...] I checked again that there is no ~/.mime.types /usr/local/share/mutt/mime.types /usr/share/mutt/mime.types There are /etc/mime.types which contains application/vnd.ms-excelxls xlb xlt /usr/etc/mime.types ??? which contains application/excel xls Apparently mutt get mime type from /usr/etc/mime.types any idea why there is such a file and why mutt read from it, instead of /etc/mime.types as mentioned inside mutt documentation? AFAIK there shouldn't be a /usr/etc/mime.types because it's not FHS-compliant: [...] /usr/etc is still not allowed: programs in /usr should place configuration files in /etc. (http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#USRLOCALLOCALHIERARCHY) Well, ehm, they're simply guidelines... Anyway, you can create a .mime.types in your $HOME with the line: application/vnd.ms-excelxls Regards. -- SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
Re: mime type when adding attachment
On Mon, 03 Nov 2008, Christian Mongeau wrote:
Chapter 5 of the manual deals with MIME:
http://www.mutt.org/doc/devel/manual.html#mimesupport
In particular, 2. MIME Type configuration with mime.types
(http://www.mutt.org/doc/devel/manual.html#mime-types) says:
When you add an attachment to your mail message, Mutt searches
your personal mime.types file at ${HOME}/.mime.types, and then
the system mime.types file at /usr/local/share/mutt/mime.types
or /etc/mime.types
The mime.types file consist of lines containing a MIME type and
a space separated list of extensions. For example:
application/postscript ps eps
application/pgp pgp
audio/x-aiffaif aifc aiff
[...]
You can change the MIME type that Mutt assigns to an attachment by
using the edit-type command from the compose menu (default: ^T).
[...] or by modifying the mime.types file.
Thanks Christian.
I checked again that there is no
~/.mime.types
/usr/local/share/mutt/mime.types
/usr/share/mutt/mime.types
There are
/etc/mime.types which contains
application/vnd.ms-excelxls xlb xlt
/usr/etc/mime.types ??? which contains
application/excel xls
Apparently mutt get mime type from /usr/etc/mime.types any idea why
there is such a file and why mutt read from it, instead of
/etc/mime.types as mentioned inside mutt documentation?
I use ubuntu if that matters.
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Re: mime type when adding attachment
On Mon, 03 Nov 2008, Christian Mongeau wrote: AFAIK there shouldn't be a /usr/etc/mime.types because it's not FHS-compliant: [...] /usr/etc is still not allowed: programs in /usr should place configuration files in /etc. I checked the mutt source and found that it set sysconfdir to prefix/etc inside configure, since my prefix=usr so that it looks for the directory /usr/etc, I'm not sure if my configure is problematic or mutt use lagacy autoconf that generate the configure. Anyway this is different from the mutt documentation. -- regards, GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3
mime type when adding attachment
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
