NAME¶
/etc/mailcap.order - the mailcap ordering specifications
DESCRIPTION¶
The order of entries in the
/etc/mailcap file can be altered by editing
the
/etc/mailcap.order file. Each line of that file specifies a package
and an optional mime type. Mailcap entries that match will be placed in the
order of this file. Entries that don't match will be placed later.
Example¶
mime-support:*/*
gv:application/postscript
netscape:text/html
less:text/*
emacs:text/*
The above would make any entries provided by the
mime-support package (as
found in the
/usr/lib/mime/packages directory) take priority over
everything else. The
gv package will be used over anything else when it
comes to postscript documents.
Netscape will be used for any html
documents and
less will be used for any remaining text documents.
However, since neither netscape or less provide for editing documents, any
edit or compose actions will fall through to the
emacs rules.
After modifying this file, be sure to run
/usr/sbin/update-mime (as root)
to propagate the changes into the
/etc/mailcap file.
Remember that this files takes
package names and not
executable
names. If you want to define rules that reference specific programs, the best
way is to include them in
~/.mailcap or the user section of the
/etc/mailcap file.
LIMITATIONS¶
There is currently no way to break out a certain type from a wildcard rule. If,
for example, both xv and gimp were to specify "image/*" rules, it
isn't possible to use xv for
gif images but use gimp for
jpeg
images.
Also, I would like to add the ability to specify certain actions in the rules.
For example, if netscape were to have an
edit rule but I wanted to use
emacs for editing/creating html documents, I could place a line like
emacs:text/* action=edit|compose
before the netscape entry. The
update-mime program would then spit out
entries such that netscape
view rule comes
before the emacs
view rule but have the netscape
edit rule comes
after the
emacs
edit rule.
AUTHOR¶
The
mailcap.order specification was written by Brian White
<bcwhite@pobox.com>