Re: [Nmh-workers] Default setup broken on Debian?

[Alexander Zangerl]

On Mon, 02 Mar 2015 17:51:22 +0000, Conrad Hughes writes:
>Debian's version sends
>    everything (although sometimes there's no-such-file, causing
>    failures) to GUI helper applications, which feels like something of
>    a regression vs 1.5 behaviour.

debian's exmh uses run-mailcap, which is the only thing we can depend on
to be available. after all not everybody has (or wants) lynx installed, 
or libreoffice or <insert mime handler of your personal choice 
which everybody else hates>.

i'd say the clean debianish solution for delegating mime types to 
specific apps would be to configure /etc/mailcap and/or /etc/mailcap.order, 
so that the run-mailcap mime handler learns of your preferences.

the nmh way would be to prime your mh_profile with your personal 
mhshow-mimetype/subtype entries for mhshow, and/or massaging /etc/mhn.defaults.

the only difference between upstream's mhn.defaults and the one shipped with
debian's nmh are the 4+6 lines for mime types 
application/postscript, /msword, /pdf, image/* (upstream and too specific) 
vs the generic application/*, audio/*, image/*, video/*, message/* and
text/* (debian).

i guess i might add a specific entry for text/plain to make show
"fall back" to the default %l+moreproc, to divert/refine the
generic text/* entry (which we need for text/richtext).

regards
az


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