Re: MIME support in balsa...

[Timothy Alan Chandler <fusion heavywater net>]

On 06 May 2001 00:51:23 +0000 Carlos Morgado wrote:

> oh that's a devel version of the menu and should be considered work in
> progress. it does contain lots of silly stuff the user don't care much
> about.

Aye, I'm just pointing it out incase no one else has noticed.

> i was slamming gnome-mime mostly on it's dumbness figuring out file
> types when people using borken muas (namely outlook) send everything
> marked as application/octet (or somesuch). aparently, as Dietmar
> Maurer was doing a nice and cleane job with the gnome-vfs stuff noone
> cared to fix gnome-mime. 

Several mua's are also known to capitalize the Content-Type field.  While
this is entirely legal as far as the RFC's are concerned, the libgnome
MIME implementation is case-dependent.

-tac