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) 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.
Thanks Christian. 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? I use ubuntu if that matters. -- regards, ==================================================== GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3
