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. -- SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
