MIME type handling in firefox/thunderbird

[Mike Reinehr]

On Tuesday 09 August 2005 05:51 pm, Net Llama! wrote:
> On 08/09/2005 08:07 AM, Mike Reinehr wrote:
> > I feel certain that you've already looked for these, but just in case, on
> > my Debian 'Sarge' system, I have two files /etc/mime.types and
> > ~/.mime.types which appear to provide these system defaults.
>
> Neither of those files on my system specify the application associated
> with the MIME types.

Do you have a file, /etc/mailcap, on your FC4 system? On Debian, it appears 
that /etc/mime.types sets up the mime types, while /etc/mailcap tells what to 
do with them.

cmr
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