MIME type handling in firefox/thunderbird

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Mike Reinehr wrote:

> On Wednesday 10 August 2005 09:24 am, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> > 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
>
> Ok, now look for a ~/.mailcap file.
>
> I've always wondered how this worked. We'll have it figured out pretty soon.

I've got a ~/.mailcap, however all it has is alot of entries for
OpenOffice related stuff.

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