Attachment weirdness
Patrick Shanahan
paka at opensuse.org
Mon May 13 19:45:20 UTC 2019
* jeremy bentham <dnw at eskimo.com> [05-13-19 15:41]:
> I used xwd to take a screen dump, then imagemagick to trim and
> save it as a gif.
>
> When I tried to attach it to a message, mutt decided it was
> "audio/basic", as it did with a jpeg of the same image.
>
> png gave me "image/png" so I did, finally, get what I
> wanted. But the file, of course, is a lot bigger than a gif.
>
> Is this just the result of my ancient copy of mutt (1.5.21)?
> (The other software is also not the Latest'n'Greatest). Or is
> there something I can fix?
iianm, mutt does not "decide" the file-type, mime does. you need to
adjust your mime settings.
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