Re: default mime for attaching files

["Sebastian P. Luque" <spluque@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 09 Feb 2007 11:00:27 +0900,
Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> wrote:

[...]

> If you customize it while Gnus is running, you need to perform `C-u M-x
> mailcap-parse-mimetypes RET' after saving the file.  In addition, you
> may possibly need to set the MIMETYPES environment variable to the file
> name.  To do it for only Emacs, add this line to the ~/.emacs file:

> (setenv "MIMETYPES" "~/.mime.types")

Thanks Katsumi, this was very instructive.  I realize I do have both a
/etc/mime.types _and_ ~/.mime.types (the first installed by Debian testing
and the second by crossover¹).  Your line for specifying the tar type was
already in /etc/mime.types, so I just added:


application/x-gzip gz


to ~/.mime.types and reparsed as you suggested.  It does what I was
looking for.

The reason I wanted to do this is that people I've sent *.tar.gz files
with the default application/octet-stream complained that they couldn't
"open them" well in their systems (I couldn't get more details than
that).  So I came across this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gzip

Is this incorrect?


Thanks,


+---- *Footnotes* ----+
¹ The Windoze emulator

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Seb