On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 07:35:39AM +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 13May2019 15:45, Patrick Shanahan and Cameron Simpson wrote:
> >>I used xwd to take a screen dump, then imagemagick to trim and > >>save it as a gif. > >iianm, mutt does not "decide" the file-type, mime does. you need to > >adjust your mime settings. [...] and > This comes from the mime.types mapping, which is stored in > /etc/mime.types with personal overrides/additons in ~/.mime.types. (Whatever the e-mail abbreviation for "sound of hand slapping forehead" is...) I had looked at my .mailcap file, which didn't help, but ~/.mime.types (which I haven't touched since 1995) contains--well, contained--exactly one line: audio/basic gif jpeg and I don't know why I did that. I can't even think of a reason anyone would _want_ to do that. Thanks. -- Pogo sez, "Friday the 13th came on Monday this month! Dave Williams d...@eskimo.com