Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 12:29:07 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@mobil.cz> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Example mime.types, and mailcap for mutt? Message-ID: <20020207112907.GQ99518@roman.mobil.cz> In-Reply-To: <20020206220159.EDCF95D0D@ptavv.es.net> References: <200202062138.XAA64050@sima.sita.kiev.ua> <20020206220159.EDCF95D0D@ptavv.es.net>
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> To: ay@sita.kiev.ua
> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Example mime.types, and mailcap for mutt?
> Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 14:01:59 -0800
> From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
>
> > Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 23:38:29 +0200 (EET)
> > From: ay@sita.kiev.ua
> > Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> >
> > It's all nice, but how to manage application/octet-stream ?
> > I do often receive msword attachments, labeled as octet-stream.
> >
> > More : catdoc fails to show nsworld files with exocic charsets.
>
> If they are just labeled as "application/octet-stream", the sender
> messed up. They should be "application/msword". I believe some
> versions used a bogus application type for all Office documents, but
> application/octet-stream is wrong as it only says that the file
> contains undefined binary data.
That answer is true, but doesn't help nevertheless. :)
Handling mislabled attachments is quite high on my todo (= should
get to it before the end of the year :), and the scenario is as
follows (warning: this will most probably be expensive as hell, and
I will prolly just go back to editing the MIME types of attachments
in mutt):
- have my MDA parse the MIME structure of incoming messages, looking
for any application/octet-stream parts
- determine the MIME type from the suffix of the attachment
- rewrite the message
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