Re: MimeMap being silly.

On 21 Oct 2013 Peter Young  wrote:

> I get a quite a few documents, e-mailed from one of the organisations
> that I belong to, in .docx format. I've been aware for a while that
> MPro (7.06 FWIW) and MimeMap between them seem to have trouble with
> some of these, as sometimes they arrive with the filetype data, and I
> have to change the type manually to MSWordX before EasiWriter can
> manage them.

> Today I've had a message with two .docx files attached, and one of
> these has the correct type and one has the filetype data. This latter
> one will happily open in EasiWriter once I've given it the correct
> type.

> Is there a logical, and perhaps remediable, explanation of this weird
> behaviour? Is it relevant that the sender uses Yahoo mail, perhaps?

It is entirely relevant to the sender's email client or webmail 
service. RISC OS uses the content-type to decide the file type and not 
bits of the file name. If you see an attachment as a data file it is 
almost certain that the content-type is "application/octet-stream" 
which your Mimemap will tell you is a Data file with type &ffd.

Yahoo mail is not the only offender. Quite why one file was correctly 
typed and the other one not defeats me. Unfortunately because both 
Windows and OSX use filename extensions and ignore content-type the 
software developers get away with being totally slapdash, while MPro 
follows the standards.

-- 
Richard Porter                        http://www.minijem.plus.com/
                                      mailto:ricp@...
I don't want a "user experience" - I just want stuff that works.

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