Nick Dokos <ndo...@gmail.com> writes: > Uwe Brauer <o...@mat.ucm.es> writes: > > >> > The error is[fn:1]: >> >> I am sorry, this is also the fault of >> gnus-dired-attach >> >> Which by default uses this type of attachment, I have to look into it, >> how to change it on demand. >> >> > > gnus-dired-attach uses mm-default-file-encoding to figure things out. > That in turn calls mailcap-extension-to-mime which uses your mailcap > file (see the mailcap man page) and the file extension. If you give your > backtrace files a .txt extension, chances are good that they will end up > with mime type "text/plain". Evaluate this to make sure: > > (mailcap-extension-to-mime "txt") > "text/plain" > > Or look through your mailcap file and find a mime-type that is > appropriate and use whatever extension it needs.
Sorry - /etc/mime.types is the file that maps extensions to mime-types, not mailcap. -- Nick
