mailcap/mime types

mailcap/mime types

[Richard G Riley]

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.

Re: mailcap/mime types

[Reiner Steib]

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'.

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Re: mailcap/mime types

[William F Hammond]

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

Re: mailcap/mime types

[Reiner Steib]

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.

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