Subject: media types

From: afr@aifbalpha (Andreas Frick)
Date: 8 Jul 1995 15:29:57 GMT

Hello pine users!
Working for few weeks with pine some questions about pine's mime
support are still unanswered.

First of all, where gets pine its information about media types?
Mosaic and netscape use mime.types files to determine the content type.
But i couldn't find out how pine does this. I created my personal
.maicaps and .mimetypes file and configured netscape to use it. So now a macintosh
binhex file is indentified by netscape and proper decoded by mcvert.
But pine still refuses to mark a macbinary file as application/applefile when
attaching a macbinary (.bin) file to a mail in pine. 

Second, is there any possibility to force pine to use a special encoding
dependent on the type of attachment?

Many thanks and best regards

Andreas

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 1995 10:43:31 -0700 (PDT)

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> attaching a macbinary (.bin) file to a mail in pine.

Pine currently looks at the first few bytes of an attachment to identify a
few common types that it knows about.  The next release of Pine will also
support the .mime-types file...

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