From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/24152 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Graham Todd Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: MIME type application/octet-stream Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 17:33:55 GMT Organization: SunSITE Denmark (sunsite.auc.dk) Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035161767 7150 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:56:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:56:07 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from farabi.math.uh.edu (farabi.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.57]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA08298 for ; Sun, 11 Jul 1999 13:34:24 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by farabi.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAB05275; Sun, 11 Jul 1999 12:34:20 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 11 Jul 1999 12:35:12 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA08098 for ; Sun, 11 Jul 1999 12:35:02 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (sunsite.auc.dk [130.225.51.30]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA08282 for ; Sun, 11 Jul 1999 13:33:58 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (qmail 660 invoked by uid 509); 11 Jul 1999 17:33:56 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: emacs.ding Original-Lines: 38 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070095 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.95) XEmacs/20.4 (Emerald) Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.172.12.232 Original-X-Complaints-To: news@sunsite.auc.dk Original-X-Trace: sunsite.auc.dk 931714435 206.172.12.232 (Sun, 11 Jul 1999 19:33:55 MET DST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 19:33:55 MET DST Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:24152 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:24152 Lately people have been sending me WPD word processor documents as attachments that are encoded with MIME content type application/octet-stream. Gnus won't allow me to read them by middle button clicking on the the MIME widget in the mail body and launching my viewer - instead it asks me where to save the document. This behaviour is consistent with Pine and VM as well. However if I read the same mail article in Netscape's mail reader (with the attachment sent as application/octet-stream) I can click on the attachment icon and it will launch my viewer. I have this entry in my ~/.mime-types file: type=application/wordperfect \ desc="WordPerfect Document" \ exts="wpd,wp6,WPD" and this in my ~/.mailcap: application/wordperfect;/usr/local/bin/applixviewer %s If the article is sent with application/wordperfect encoding everything works fine in Gnus. Is Gnus supposed to fall back on the extensions defined in ~/.mime-types if it can't determine how to handle content from the type/content lines in ~/.mailcap? Is octet-stream some lowest common denominator encoding that needs more configuration (by the user - i.e. me) to be handled properly? (perhaps some kind of ~/.mailcap entry for application/octet-stream or setting a gnus-* variable). Or is Netscape's behaviour just "non-standard"? Thanks, -- Graham Todd York University, Toronto http://www.yorku.ca/academics/gtodd