From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 2 15:36:53 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B697106566C for ; Fri, 2 May 2008 15:36:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from frank@esperance-linux.co.uk) Received: from mailout.zetnet.co.uk (mailout.zetnet.co.uk [194.247.47.231]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED2538FC0A for ; Fri, 2 May 2008 15:36:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from frank@esperance-linux.co.uk) Received: from irwell.zetnet.co.uk ([194.247.47.48] helo=zetnet.co.uk) by mailout.zetnet.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Jrx0E-0004AK-PJ; Fri, 02 May 2008 16:16:50 +0100 Received: from melon.esperance-linux.co.uk (54-144.adsl.zetnet.co.uk [194.247.54.144]) by zetnet.co.uk (8.14.1/8.14.1/Debian-9) with ESMTP id m42FGnrJ031207; Fri, 2 May 2008 16:16:50 +0100 Received: by melon.esperance-linux.co.uk (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 9FB80FCA4AF; Fri, 2 May 2008 16:16:44 +0100 (BST) Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 16:16:44 +0100 From: Frank Shute To: "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" Message-ID: <20080502151644.GA79968@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Face: *}~{PHnDTzvXPe'wl_-f%!@+r5; VLhb':*DsX%wEOPg\fDrXWQJf|2\,92"DdS%63t*BHDyQ|OWo@Gfjcd72eaN!4%NE{0]p)ihQ1MyFNtWL X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE-p2 i386 X-Organisation: 'Esperance Linux' X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (zetnet.co.uk [194.247.46.1]); Fri, 02 May 2008 16:16:50 +0100 (BST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mailcap documentation? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Frank Shute List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 May 2008 15:36:53 -0000 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