mml bug?

mml bug?

[Paul Stevenson]

I've just upgraded to latest CVS and I notice that when I attach a
file and am prompted for the Content-Type, then press tab to see the
list of known types, there are a few bogus entries (mangled duplicates
of postscript and pdf)


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Re: mml bug?

[ShengHuo ZHU]

Paul Stevenson <p.stevenson@surrey.ac.uk> writes:

> I've just upgraded to latest CVS and I notice that when I attach a
> file and am prompted for the Content-Type, then press tab to see the
> list of known types, there are a few bogus entries (mangled duplicates
> of postscript and pdf)

Those entries come from mailcap-mime-data, mailcap-mime-extensions,
mailcap files and mime-types files.  What does evaluating
(mailcap-mime-types) say?


ShengHuo

Re: mml bug?

[Paul Stevenson]

ShengHuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu> writes:

> Paul Stevenson <p.stevenson@surrey.ac.uk> writes:
> 
> > I've just upgraded to latest CVS and I notice that when I attach a
> > file and am prompted for the Content-Type, then press tab to see the
> > list of known types, there are a few bogus entries (mangled duplicates
> > of postscript and pdf)
> 
> Those entries come from mailcap-mime-data, mailcap-mime-extensions,
> mailcap files and mime-types files.  What does evaluating
> (mailcap-mime-types) say?

ah.  Yes, they come from the mailcap entries put there by netscape
(mailcap-mime-types) gives:
("desc=\"postscript" "type=application/postscript" "desc=\"portable"
"type=application/pdf" ... )

Does this reflect incorrect parsing of the mailcap file, or is gnus
doing the right thing?

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.   Paul Stevenson   .   Reasearch Fellow   .   University of Surrey   .
.     phone: +44 (0) 1483 876795     .     fax +44 (0) 1483 876781     .
.                           I dream in beige                           .

Re: mml bug?

[ShengHuo ZHU]

Paul Stevenson <p.stevenson@surrey.ac.uk> writes:

> ah.  Yes, they come from the mailcap entries put there by netscape
> (mailcap-mime-types) gives:
> ("desc=\"postscript" "type=application/postscript" "desc=\"portable"
> "type=application/pdf" ... )
> 
> Does this reflect incorrect parsing of the mailcap file, or is gnus
> doing the right thing?

I don't know.  Could you show me your mailcap file?

ShengHuo

Re: mml bug?

[Paul Stevenson]

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ShengHuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu> writes:

> I don't know.  Could you show me your mailcap file?


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#mailcap entry added by Netscape Helper
application/pdf;/usr/bin/X11/acroread %s
#mailcap entry added by Netscape Helper
application/postscript;ghostview %s

Re: mml bug?

[ShengHuo ZHU]

Paul Stevenson <p.stevenson@surrey.ac.uk> writes:

> ShengHuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu> writes:
> 
> > I don't know.  Could you show me your mailcap file?
> 
> #mailcap entry added by Netscape Helper
> application/pdf;/usr/bin/X11/acroread %s
> #mailcap entry added by Netscape Helper
> application/postscript;ghostview %s

"type=application/postscript" is not from this one.  Maybe from some
other files like /etc/mailcap, /usr/etc/mailcap, or
/usr/local/etc/mailcap.  Some file must contain the exact text.

ShengHuo

Re: mml bug?

[Paul Stevenson]

ShengHuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu> writes:

> "type=application/postscript" is not from this one.  Maybe from some
> other files like /etc/mailcap, /usr/etc/mailcap, or
> /usr/local/etc/mailcap.  Some file must contain the exact text.
> 
> ShengHuo

Yes.  I looked for each of those files you listed (plus the extra
personal ones listed in mailcap-parse-mailcaps) but none of the files
exist. Hmmm.  Neither is the environment variable MAILCAPS defined.

Paul