> >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 -- Vlad