Re: [Nmh-workers] whatnow: can't attach because no header fieldname was given.

[rader]

 > > I haven't looked to see if the attach command for whatnow is using
 > > that or not, but certainly, if it is (or if it will, in the future),
 > > then it would seem to me that whatnow itself would not even need to
 > > make use of any file called "mime.types" (no matter where located).
 > 
 > Currently, we use the associations in the user's .mh_profile
 > and etc/mhn.defaults, which are greatly enhanced in the
 > upcoming nmh 1.5 as a result of your report.  Of course, it
 > would be much better to rely on system capabilities.  Some
 > day . . .

Why not write a one-off script to blast the goodies from /etc/mime.types
into etc/mhn.defaults??  I'll do it if they'll get in.

steve
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