Hello Joan.
Joan wrote in <CAP4s+CGK3KsAM0H7MyoxCEP_m7=NVbcRYy=vAdjuDrzGqivW-g@mail.\
gmail.com>:
|Hello, I've been using s-nail for some time as as a replacement for the
|mailx tool, now I wanted to use the flag -M so I can change the mime type
|of the email I'm sending.
|The reason is that I'm dealing with a software that can only read the
|multipart emails.
|I tried several things, also looking into the documentation but I haven't
|been able to send any email with this option:
|
|For any of the options I test I get the same error.
|echo "BODY" | s-nail -M text/watch-html -s "Subject" [email protected]
|> s-nail: Could not find `mimetype' for -M argument: text/watch-html
|
|What would be a proper way to call it?
This MUA warns that it does not know about the mimetype you have
specified. You need to specify it with the `mimetypes' command:
$ </dev/null mail -:/ -stest -M text/watch-html \
-X 'mimetype text/watch-html anything' \
-Sexpandaddr -
From steffen Tue Jan 8 19:26:49 2019
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2019 19:26:49 +0100
Subject: t
User-Agent: mail v14.9.11
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/watch-html; charset=us-ascii
We read, dependent upon the variable *mimetypes-load-control*
(mind you, i use `command', *variable* and $ENVIRONMENT notation),
several so-called "The mime.types files" (the name of the manual
section) in order to learn about MIME types. We also (by default)
have a builtin set of such. More types can be created with the
`mimetype' command, as above.
That is, yes, we put this burden on you, but it is also to protect
you a bit. If you would use -m in the same example, we would try
to classify your "watch-html" file, and could not. You would also
need to give us a hint what it is. MIME types have an official
registry (IANA), and i would like to prevent users from sending
out data which is not easily understood by receiving parties
because of typos and the like. If you have the special
requirement of using an otherwise unknown (to the world) MIME
type, it think it is for the better to keep this requirement.
But i think i will have to add some documentation regarding this.
Thanks for pointing this out!
Hope this helps,
--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)
