Attachment weirdness
Cameron Simpson
cs at cskk.id.au
Mon May 13 21:35:39 UTC 2019
On 13May2019 15:45, Patrick Shanahan <paka at opensuse.org> wrote:
>* 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.
[...]
>iianm, mutt does not "decide" the file-type, mime does. you need to
>adjust your mime settings.
In more detail:
This comes from the mime.types mapping, which is stored in
/etc/mime.types with personal overrides/additons in ~/.mime.types. This
is just a text file with an association of a MIME Content-Type to
various file extensions. Example line:
image/jpeg jpg jpeg jpe jfif pjpeg pjp
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs at cskk.id.au>
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