[Virtualacorn-list] MIME mappings

[Tricia Garner]

On 09 Sep, in article <328151dc4f.admin at snowstone.org.uk>,
  Adam <lists at snowstone.org.uk> wrote:
> In message <4fdc4ba118tricia at orchid-squad.org.uk>, Tricia Garner  wrote:

> > Some email attachments received are not being correctly typed
> > (all are typed Data

> HostFS has a knack of typing things as Data which should be Text
> (the syslog logs are the same).


> >, except image files). there is a suitable MimeMap file in
> > Boot>Resources>!Internet>files and also in
> > Boot>Choices>Default>Internet>Files but if I click on the MimeMap
> > icon in Boot's Network configuration window I get an error
> > message:
> >  
> > Syntax: *Filer_Run [-noshift] [-type <filetype>]
> > <file>|<application>
> > 
> > I'm not sure if the MimeMap files are in the correct place(s) -
> > given the error message it seems to me they are not. Can anyone
> > suggest a fix?

> Yes, set the type of your MimeMap file to text. 

> (Plug-mode: to be doubley sure, you could use MimeMan from the link
> in my sig, to get an up-to-date MimeMap file.)

Thanks, Adam. MimeMan saves the day! Those pesky .doc attachments are
correctly typed again.

-- 

Tricia


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