On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, David Thorburn-Gundlach wrote:
> Here on my Linux machine, I'm proud to not have any of that MS junk
> hanging around. Occasionally, though, I must send someone a Word
> document (for example) and it would be nice if it appeared as a MIME
> type of application/msword instead of application/octet-stream when
> it got there. How does mutt decide what the MIME type will be,
Mutt looks into /etc/mime.types (or was it /usr/local/etc/mime.types?)
and ~/.mime.types for the extension of the file. For ".doc" it finds
(on my system):
application/msword doc dot
> and how can I influence that,
Simply add a line into your ~/.mime.types.
> and how can I perhaps just override the type and set it myself?
Press Ctrl-T (or whatever you configured your keybindings) and edit
the Content-Type field by hand.
Ciao
Roland
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