Re: Counfounding MIME

[David Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>]

At Wed, 27 Oct 2010 11:19:35 -0700,
Erik Hetzner wrote:
> 
> At Wed, 27 Oct 2010 12:23:19 -0400,
> David Abrahams wrote:
> > Heh, naturally `C-c C-t C-c' just shows a bunch of garbled text,
> > probably because as you say, the mime type is wrong.  Now, the problem
> > is that that mime type was inserted by Apple Mail (2.1081), so if it's
> > wrong, it's a very common wrongness that WL should work around.
> 
> (add-to-list 'mime-image-format-alist '(image jpg jpeg))
> 
> Restart WL (possible emacs).
> 
> Probably this should be added to mime-image.el in SEMI head.

Maybe not a bad idea.  Probably the same goes for mpg and a few others ;-)

> > > Maybe I am missing something, but I think that the lines in mailcap
> > > that matter are the image/jpg lines.
> > 
> > Sure... WL doesn't do wildcard matches in the mailcap?  If it did, */*
> > should work.
> 
> Sorry, missed that. Yes, WL does wildcard matching.

So what's going on?  I don't think I have time for an edebug session
ATM.  Any suggestions?

> > > Finally, sometimes C-u v helps; it ignores
> > > mime-acting-situation-example-list.
> > 
> > Not in this case; it just says "No method are specified for nil" and
> > asks if I want to save to disk.
> 
> I am attaching an JPEG with type image/jpg using WL. If it works OK
> for you with v, there may be other problems with Apple Mail attachments.

It doesn't.  It behaves the same as the other one both for `v' and
`C-u v'

Thanks for all your help so far,

-- 
Dave Abrahams
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