Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 16:16:44 +0100 From: Frank Shute <frank@shute.org.uk> To: "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" <danm@prime.gushi.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mailcap documentation? Message-ID: <20080502151644.GA79968@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.1.00.0805011653410.82881@prime.gushi.org> References: <alpine.BSF.1.00.0805011653410.82881@prime.gushi.org>
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On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 05:44:04PM -0400, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: > > Hello all, > > There's apparently an RFC-standard file called /etc/mailcap (as well as > .mailcap), but I can't find any docs on this file. > > Would it be worthwhile to rework the RFC into a manpage (I am willing to > do it), or should I bother the providers of ports that use it (such as, > say, alpine (and possibly others)? The problem is, they likely don't > bundle it because other OSes have it already. > > It's a fairly standard file, but FreeBSD doesn't ship with an MUA that > uses it (I *think*). I know mail(1) does not. > I'd like a manpage for mailcap. Even though it doesn't exist in FreeBSD quite a lot of ports use it as you say e.g mutt which comes with a very short example mailcap. I think there should be an example mailcap in base too. I can't see what harm it would do. You're probably best raising this on docs though. Regards, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html
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