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From: Ben Lutgens <blutgens@×××××××.com>
To: Jerry A! <jerry@×××××××.org>
Cc: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: mailbase ebuild
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 10:04:32
Message-Id: 20010802110506.B16942@minime.sistina.com
1 On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 11:41:57AM -0400, Jerry A! wrote:
2 >On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 03:47:42AM -0600, Parag Mehta wrote:
3 >: Hi jerry / Lamer
4 >:
5 >: the mailbase ebuild is missing the mailcap file in files directory.
6
7 Well, if it's a webbrowser based file (which I don't believe ) then why
8 is it called "mailcap"
9
10 Perhaps you're thinking of mime.types.
11
12 Regardless it should be in base install and updated by packages that
13 introduce the capabilities to handle mime mail attachments for the
14 mailers (i.e. image viewers, document viewers etc)
15
16 >
17 >There shouldn't be a mailcap file. Anyway mailbase is going away.
18 >mailcap is traditionally a www-browser bundled file.
19 >
20 >MIME-capable mailers have just been lucky to take advantage of the
21 >existence of the file...
22 >
23 > --Jerry
24 >
25 >name: Jerry Alexandratos || Open-Source software isn't a
26 >phone: 703.599.6023 || matter of life or death...
27 >email: jerry@×××××××.org || ...It's much more important
28 > || than that!
29
30 --
31 Ben Lutgens
32 Sistina Software Inc.
33
34 What's the difference between root and God ?
35 God doesn't think that he is root.

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[gentoo-dev] Re: mailbase ebuild Jerry A! <jerry@×××××××.org>