From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/28512 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daniel Pittman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Mailcap behavior not as expected Date: 02 Jan 2000 19:17:17 +1100 Organization: Here, there and everywhere... Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <873dsgnb02.fsf@inanna.danann.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035165346 30257 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:55:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:55:46 +0000 (UTC) Keywords: mime, mailcap, pgnus, metamail, entries, display, behavior Return-Path: Original-Received: from spinoza.math.uh.edu (spinoza.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.18]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96BDCD051E for ; Sun, 2 Jan 2000 03:22:05 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by spinoza.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id CAB04324; Sun, 2 Jan 2000 02:21:45 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 02 Jan 2000 02:19:25 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA25480 for ; Sun, 2 Jan 2000 02:19:14 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from melancholia.danann.net (melancholia.danann.net [203.36.211.210]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 671A9D051E for ; Sun, 2 Jan 2000 03:17:35 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from inanna.danann.net (inanna.danann.net [203.36.211.216]) by melancholia.danann.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46D0D2A812 for ; Sun, 2 Jan 2000 19:17:33 +1100 (EST) Original-Received: by inanna.danann.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8B0DB280B2; Sun, 2 Jan 2000 19:17:19 +1100 (EST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Homepage: http://danann.net/ Mail-Copies-To: Never X-spies: Qaddafi Project Monarch Rule Psix Peking Saddam Hussein Kibo FBI nuclear cypherpunk Waco, Texas Serbian Legion of Doom AK-47 Kenneth Starr Vickie Weaver Original-Lines: 28 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) XEmacs/21.2 (Millenium) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:28512 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:28512 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 -- No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky. -- Llewelyn Powys