Re: [Nmh-workers] I need to learn more about MIME

[Jon Steinhart]

address@hidden writes:
> Is it true that, that possibly apart from mhbuild, the nmh user does not have
> explicit control of the content type of a message? Based on my
> experimentation, nmh must have a fairly complex heuristic for determining
> content type. For example, I attached a file named "Chart.pj", That is, a file
> whose suffix was not .java. But human intelligence reveals it to be a Java
> source file. But nmh knew it was a java file; nmh set:
> 
>       Content-Type: text/x-java; charset="us-ascii"; name="Chart.pj"
> 
> Is there any documentation of that heuristic, maybe in source code comments?

My memory on this is really fuzzy, but I think that if you use the attach
stuff it uses the file command to get the file type.

Jon