Re: mailcap entries ignore filename/extension mismatches
On 2003-11-18, Eugene Lee <list-mutt@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I've run into an annoying problem, but I didn't find anything in the
> list archives. I get pictures sent from Outlook Express users. Each
> picture attachment starts with a MIME header like so:
>
> Content-Type: application/octet-stream;
> name="SomePicture.jpg"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
> Content-Disposition: attachment;
> filename="SomePicture.jpg"
>
> Mutt (correctly) identifies the MIME type as "application/octet-stream".
> And I'm pretty sure Outlook Express did the wrong thing and should have
> sent a MIME type of "image/jpeg" based on the ".jpg" filename extension.
> Since it is unreasonable to expect M$ to fix Outlook Express in the near
> century, is there a way to force Mutt to determine the MIME type based
> on the provided filename extension? Any suggestions are appreciated!
There are a couple of solutions to this, described here:
http://www.spocom.com/users/gjohnson/mutt/#octet
HTH,
Gary
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Gary Johnson | Agilent Technologies
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