Re: mime type when adding attachment
On 2008-11-03, bill lam wrote:
> When I attach an excel file, its mime type is automatically set
> to
> "application/excel", while recipient has no problem (they use
> outlook), my mailcap has not associate that with any spreadsheet
> program, thus mutt cannot open it. My question is how does mutt
> determine mime type when adding attachment so that I could
> change that
> for excel file to "application/vnd.ms-excel" which seem
> recognised by
> both gnumeric and openoffice.
Chapter 5 of the manual deals with MIME:
http://www.mutt.org/doc/devel/manual.html#mimesupport
In particular, "2. MIME Type configuration with mime.types"
(http://www.mutt.org/doc/devel/manual.html#mime-types) says:
"When you add an attachment to your mail message, Mutt searches
your personal mime.types file at ${HOME}/.mime.types, and then
the system mime.types file at /usr/local/share/mutt/mime.types
or /etc/mime.types
The mime.types file consist of lines containing a MIME type and
a space separated list of extensions. For example:
application/postscript ps eps
application/pgp pgp
audio/x-aiff aif aifc aiff
[...]
You can change the MIME type that Mutt assigns to an attachment by
using the edit-type command from the compose menu (default: ^T).
[...]" or by modifying the mime.types file.
Regards.
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