MIME type handling in firefox/thunderbird

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Mike Reinehr wrote:
> 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.

I do however, its rather sparse:

audio/mod; /usr/bin/mikmod %s
image/*; gthumb %s
application/msword; ooffice %s
application/pdf; evince %s
application/postscript ; evince %s
text/html; /usr/bin/htmlview %s ; copiousoutput

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