[Alpine-info] How to make Alpine recognize .doc, .odt,.docx again?

[Mirko Hessel-von Molo]

On Wed, 1 Feb 2012, Mikael Böök wrote:


> 

> It seems that the /etc/mailcap which I have edited on my (personal) laptop,

> where I have installed alpine under ubuntulinux 10.0, is every now and then

> being replaced by a procedure I do not control, and thus, without my

> knowledge. As a consequence, the lines I have added to my /etc/mailcap in

> order to make Alpine open Libre Office, when it recognizes a .doc or an .odt ,

> disappear.

> What is going on here? Mikael


My first shot: this is the normal Ubuntu update-mime routine called
whenever any application is installed, updated or changed in any other way
which may be used in mime-attachment handling (so this may be about any
file-handling application).  It takes the right to freely change contents
of /etc/mailcap, _except_ what is contained between the lines

# ----- User Section Begins ----- #

and 

# -----  User Section Ends  ----- #

So I do my personal, but system-wide configuration between these lines,
and update-mime respects it. As these are in the beginning of the file,
they should take precedence over what may be contained later on. 

Hope this helps, 

Mirko