Re: mime type when adding attachment

2008-11-03 Thread bill lam
On Mon, 03 Nov 2008, Christian Mongeau wrote: > 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." I checked the mutt source and found that it set sysconfdir to prefi

Re: mime type when adding attachment

2008-11-03 Thread Christian Mongeau
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#m

Re: mime type when adding attachment

2008-11-03 Thread bill lam
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 attachm

Re: mime type when adding attachment

2008-11-03 Thread Christian Mongeau
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