Subject: Allowed MIME types

From: Brian Salter-Duke <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:54:37 +1100

In the documentation it says that only the standard seven MIME types 
are allowed, but in practice it seems that one can use anything. If
you invent a mime type, say foo/x-bar and put

foo/x-bar    bar

in your mime.types file, it will send the mail as foo/x-bar. If
you have an appropriate viewer for foo/x-bar in a mailcap file,
it will work fine on receipt of a message in pine.

Is this the expected behaviour?

I see various body_types defined in c-client/rfc822.c and various
other references to mime types in mailindx.c and send.c but I can
not figure out whether this is expected behaviour or not.

I would welcome thoughts on this topic.

Cheers, Brian.
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        Associate Professor Brian Salter-Duke (Brian Duke)
Chemistry, Faculty of Science, IT and Education, Northern Territory University,
  Darwin, NT 0909, Australia.  Phone 08-89466702. Fax 08-89466847
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