Re: Surprising MIME Type from Android.

[Steffen Nurpmeso]

Ralph Corderoy wrote in
 <20220725092852.E055E2017C@orac.inputplus.co.uk>:
 |> I ran mhstore(1) and was surprised by the ‘81081.2.*’ filename.
 |...
 |>   2     image/*                  2985K
 |...
 |> I haven't checked yet, but I assume it violates the RFCs.
 |
 |It does by my reading of
 |https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2045#section-5.1
 |
 |Something for mhfixmsg(1) to correct?
 ...
 |>     Content-Type: image/*; name="20220721_180552.jpg"
 ...

Fwiw, my mailer has a *mime-counter-evidence* variable which tries

  ...
 |Has anyone else got an example?
 |
 |    pick -sea 'content-type.*\*'
  ...

It has become better, but i see that setting adjusting MIME types
very often.  (Though most often it is overwriting
application/octet-stream with something more sensible.  Iirc
especially elder Apple Mail's where notorious false claimers.)

--steffen
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