Re: MimeMap being silly.

From:	Steve Fryatt	Date:	22 Oct 2013 08:29
In Reply To:	MimeMap being silly. (Peter Young)

On 21 Oct, Peter Young wrote in message
    <6cfc349e53.pnyoung@...>:

> 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?

Yes: each part of an email will have its own MIME type set by the sender's
mail client. Unless that type maps to .docx, then MimeMap won't know to map
it to a .docx.

The fact that one attachment /did/ get the correct type suggests that the
MIME types of the two attachments were different.

-- 
Steve Fryatt - Leeds, England

http://www.stevefryatt.org.uk/

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