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

I don't have much experience with MacOS-X but it looks to me like the
problem is with /usr/bin/open and not with exmh.  I've never heard of a
unix command that operates based on file extensions before (rather than
determining type based on file contents (eg file)).

If open is a shell script, I'd suggest rewriting it.  If it is a binary,
I'd suggest bypassing it and calling the appropriate application
directly in the mailcap (eg "audio/*; /usr/bin/musicprog %s"). 

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Marc Baaden
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 8:49 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Detecting attachment types by file extension.. how to change
exmh's behaviour?


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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