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