* mailcap/mime types
@ 2007-11-08 18:00 Richard G Riley
2007-11-20 19:38 ` Reiner Steib
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From: Richard G Riley @ 2007-11-08 18:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: info-gnus-english
I have an mime attachment in an email marked in gnis like this:
[2. application/octet-stream; Toom_Bumper.wmv]
What would the .mailcap entry to match this similar to:
video/x-ms-wmv;/usr/local/bin/mplayer %s
Thanks for any help.
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* Re: mailcap/mime types
2007-11-08 18:00 mailcap/mime types Richard G Riley
@ 2007-11-20 19:38 ` Reiner Steib
2007-11-21 18:48 ` William F Hammond
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From: Reiner Steib @ 2007-11-20 19:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: info-gnus-english
On Thu, Nov 08 2007, Richard G Riley wrote:
> I have an mime attachment in an email marked in gnis like this:
>
> [2. application/octet-stream; Toom_Bumper.wmv]
>
> What would the .mailcap entry to match this similar to:
>
> video/x-ms-wmv;/usr/local/bin/mplayer %s
It would be ...
application/octet-stream; /usr/local/bin/mplayer %s
..., but probably `2 K e' (`gnus-mime-view-part-externally' on part 2)
works as well: It looks for the MIME viewer for `*.wmv'.
Bye, Reiner.
--
,,,
(o o)
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* Re: mailcap/mime types
2007-11-20 19:38 ` Reiner Steib
@ 2007-11-21 18:48 ` William F Hammond
2007-11-21 19:49 ` Reiner Steib
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From: William F Hammond @ 2007-11-21 18:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: info-gnus-english
Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:
> On Thu, Nov 08 2007, Richard G Riley wrote:
>> ...
>> What would the .mailcap entry to match this similar to:
>>
>> video/x-ms-wmv;/usr/local/bin/mplayer %s
>
> It would be ...
> application/octet-stream; /usr/local/bin/mplayer %s
But in .mailcap this would cause mplayer to be spawned for all
instances of application/octet-stream, which is a catch-all
content-type for "binary" things of whatever nature.
My sense is that this content-type is used when the content-provider
expects the user to download and save or when the content-provider
does not know what content-type to use.
-- Bill
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* Re: mailcap/mime types
2007-11-21 18:48 ` William F Hammond
@ 2007-11-21 19:49 ` Reiner Steib
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From: Reiner Steib @ 2007-11-21 19:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: info-gnus-english
On Wed, Nov 21 2007, William F Hammond wrote:
> But in .mailcap this would cause mplayer to be spawned for all
> instances of application/octet-stream, which is a catch-all
> content-type for "binary" things of whatever nature.
Yes. But that's what Richard asked. ;-)
> My sense is that this content-type is used when the content-provider
> expects the user to download and save or when the content-provider
> does not know what content-type to use.
More often it happens when using a broken MUA.
Bye, Reiner.
--
,,,
(o o)
---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- | PGP key available | http://rsteib.home.pages.de/
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