Re: mime type when adding attachment
On 2008-11-03, bill lam wrote:
> On Mon, 03 Nov 2008, Christian Mongeau wrote:
> > 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)
[...]
>
> I checked again that there is no
> ~/.mime.types
> /usr/local/share/mutt/mime.types
> /usr/share/mutt/mime.types
>
> There are
> /etc/mime.types which contains
> application/vnd.ms-excel xls xlb xlt
>
> /usr/etc/mime.types ??? which contains
> application/excel xls
>
> Apparently mutt get mime type from /usr/etc/mime.types any idea why
> there is such a file and why mutt read from it, instead of
> /etc/mime.types as mentioned inside mutt documentation?
AFAIK there shouldn't be a /usr/etc/mime.types because it's not
FHS-compliant:
"[...] /usr/etc is still not allowed: programs in /usr should
place configuration files in /etc."
(http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#USRLOCALLOCALHIERARCHY)
Well, ehm, they're simply guidelines...
Anyway, you can create a .mime.types in your $HOME with the line:
application/vnd.ms-excel xls
Regards.
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