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

[Mirko Hessel-von Molo]

On Thu, 2 Feb 2012, Mikael Böök wrote:


> 

> Thanks again for your advice. I created ~/mailcap and stored the lines

> 

> application/MSWORD; /opt/libreoffice3.4/program/swriter '%s'; "$DISPLAY"

> application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text; /opt/libreoffice3.4/program/swriter

> '%s'; "$DISPLAY"

> application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document

> /opt/libreoffice3.4/program/swriter '%s';$

> application/x-rtf /opt/libreoffice3.4/program/swriter '%s'; "$DISPLAY"

> 

> there, and this helps, except for docx and rtf.


As Hugh pointed out, the relation "file suffix" -> "mime-type" is done in
/etc/mime.types, while /etc/mailcap and the like define the relation
"mime-type" -> "displaying application". So if it doesn't work for docx
and rtf, it might be that 
a) the emails within which you receive these attachments do not properly
   identify their mime-type (saying e. g. "octet-stream" instead), and
b) your /etc/mime.types lacks entries for these suffixes.

Best, Mirko