Detecting attachment types by file extension.. how to change exmh's behaviour?

Marc Baaden <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.exmh.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

I am configuring exmh for use on MacOSX. Currently I am working on the
mailcap file and on calling the right Applications to open attachments.
In principle this is simple, and the following is a minimal but sufficient
set:

application/*; /usr/bin/open %s
audio/*; /usr/bin/open %s
image/*; /usr/bin/open %s
video/*; /usr/bin/open %s

Now the problem is that exmh saves its attachment with the extension .exmh
which is a problem for open. As an example, I have a audio WAV file attachment
which does not open with exmh's name (1.0=1.13959.exmh), but which opens
properly if I rename it to something.wav. Furthermore I see that the filename
is declared as whatever.wav in the actual mail message. 

So I wonder whether I couldnt' get exmh to just
use that filename as temporary file, as then the open command would work
fine on it.

I hope my explanation was clear, please don't hesitate to ask for more
precisions.

Thanks in advance,
  Marc Baaden

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