Re: application/octet-stream everywhere

[Vladimír Marek <vlmarek@xxxxxxxx>]

> >last few days I'm getting mails containing application/octet-stream
> >attachments, even that they could have valid mime types. Up till now I
> >solved this by having octet-stream definition in ~/.mimetypes, and
> >having external script deciding on how to open file according to the
> >extension.
> 
> I think you may want to check out mime_lookup in the muttrc man-page. 
> Specifically, you can add the following line to your ~/.muttrc:
> 
>     mime_lookup application/octet-stream
> 
> That will tell mutt to be a bit smarter about application/octet-stream 
> attachments.

That's just too good to be true! I'm going to smack my head repeatedly
:)

Thanks Kyle

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        Vlad