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Re: mailcap funny default
From: |
Frank Schmitt |
Subject: |
Re: mailcap funny default |
Date: |
Thu, 02 Aug 2007 09:20:17 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) |
Nic James Ferrier <address@hidden> writes:
> mailcap.el has:
>
> application/octet-stream
>
> set to the default viewer of mailcap-save-binary-file.
>
> Should mailcap be providing a default for this? I don't think so.
>
> A lot of attachments have this purely because the sender has a poor
> mime setup (I am working with a client with a mac that _never_ sends
> anything other than this mimetype).
>
> So _most_ of the time one wants to ask:
>
> (mailcap-mime-info "application/octet-stream")
>
> and get no default so that one can ask the user how they want to look
> at it.
I second this.
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