Mailcap behavior not as expected

[Daniel Pittman <daniel@danann.net>]

Hi.

pGnus has a behavior in it's MIME display engine that I consider
somewhat odd, even if it is not technically a bug.

metamail(1) will select the first entry in the mailcap files that
matches the MIME type it is trying to display and attempt to use that to
display the content.

pGnus will try the last entry that matches the MIME type. Now,
mailcap(5) and friends don't actually specify behavior when there are
multiple matching entries in the mailcap files. 

I think that the behavior of metamail(1) is more what I would expect
though, an assumption that is also held by the architects of the Debian
MIME system -- they provide a configuration in /etc/ to allow one
package to be preferred as the viewer for it's MIME types.

This works by putting it's entries earlier in the system mailcap file...

Anyway, WIBNI pGnus also preferred the earlier entries, allowing it to
work like metamail(1) and it's friends?

        Daniel

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