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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Is there a standard (or "standard") that specifies the syntax of the
> mailcap files, and what the semantics of the symbols are?  

Um, from your mailcap.el:

;; Provides configuration of MIME media types from directly from Lisp
;; and via the usual mailcap mechanism (RFC 1524).  Deals with
;; mime.types similarly.

So RFC 1524 would be a good bet. :-)   It it is rather vague about some
things though.