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Re: Choosing the right MIME type when sending attachment
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John Robot |
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Re: Choosing the right MIME type when sending attachment |
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Tue, 27 Jul 2004 10:50:30 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (windows-nt) Hamster/2.0.5.5 |
Reiner Steib <4.uce.03.r.s@nurfuerspam.de> writes:
> On Mon, Jul 26 2004, John Robot wrote:
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>> What can I do so that Gnus chooses the right MIME type when I'm
>> attaching files?
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>> Is there a mailcap-like file to edit,
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> Yes. And surprisingly it is called `~/.mailcap'. ;-) Oops, in fact
> it's ~/.mime.types rather than ~/mailcap I think.
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>> or a variable to set?
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> (eval-after-load "mailcap"
> '(add-to-list 'mailcap-mime-extensions '(".doc" . "application/msword")))
Setting the variable `mailcap-mime-extensions' perfectly works
on my XEmacs installation.
Why - I cannot figure why! -, this does not work (with the same
.emacs and .gnus init files) for my GNU Emacs [while both run
Gnus 5.10.6]...
Thanks for your help,
John
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John Robot