Re: [Evolution] content type of attachments

[Scott Dixon <scott metaphorics com>]

Hi, again-
Actually, it doesn't seem to have anything to do with the contents of
the file.  I just made a one line test file containing "This is a test"
and named it test.dat.  If I attach this (using Evo Beta2) in a compose
window, it is assigned as video/mpeg.  If I rename that file to test.txt
and attach it, it is assigned as test/plain.
Scott
On 22 Aug 2001 15:18:05 -0400, Benjamin Kahn wrote:
> The problem is that gnome-vfs is trying to "sniff" the file type by
> reading it.  Outlook winmail.dat files often (although it doesn't seem
> to always be true) match the MPEG signature.  BTW -- here is the logic
> in question:
>
> 0       string          \000\000\001\263        video/mpeg
>
>
> On Wed, 2001-08-22 at 13:20, Scott Dixon wrote:
> > But it is Evolution which sets the content type in the multipart
> > attachment as video/mpeg.  If you examine the properties of the
> > attachment in Evo before it is sent, it shows up as video/mpeg.  So this
> > has nothing to do with Windows (or the receiver in general).  It is all
> > within Evo.
> > Scott
> > On 22 Aug 2001 13:05:17 -0400, Neil Cooler wrote:
> > > Windows does not look at mime types when determining file types.  It
> > > looks at extensions, so it thinks that .dat is an mpeg.
> > >
> > > --neil
> > >
> > > On Wed, 2001-08-22 at 12:36, Scott Dixon wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > Someone has recently pointed out to me that a text file I sent as an
> > > > attachment (with a file name extension of .dat) was labeled as content
> > > > type video/mpeg.  Where is that controlled?  I don't see .dat as being
> > > > set as video/mpeg in the mimetypes capplet for example.  Is there some
> > > > place to control how the content type is set?
> > > > Scott
> > > >
> > > >
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