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| author | hiro <hiro@ee746299-78ed-0310-b773-934348b2243d> | 2010-07-16 04:22:29 +0000 |
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| committer | hiro <hiro@ee746299-78ed-0310-b773-934348b2243d> | 2010-07-16 04:22:29 +0000 |
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updated and added missing source file of English manual.
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diff --git a/manual/en/sylpheed-14.html b/manual/en/sylpheed-14.html index 77682fd8..dde34f2d 100644 --- a/manual/en/sylpheed-14.html +++ b/manual/en/sylpheed-14.html @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ <HTML> <HEAD> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="SGML-Tools 1.0.9"> - <TITLE>Sylpheed User's Manual: Conversion of Other Mail Format into Sylpheed (MH Format)</TITLE> + <TITLE>Sylpheed User's Manual: Handling MIME types</TITLE> <LINK HREF="sylpheed-15.html" REL=next> <LINK HREF="sylpheed-13.html" REL=previous> <LINK HREF="sylpheed.html#toc14" REL=contents> @@ -12,33 +12,138 @@ <A HREF="sylpheed-13.html">Previous</A> <A HREF="sylpheed.html#toc14">Contents</A> <HR> -<H2><A NAME="s14">14. Conversion of Other Mail Format into Sylpheed (MH Format)</A></H2> +<H2><A NAME="s14">14. Handling MIME types</A></H2> -<H2><A NAME="ss14.1">14.1 Importing Messages of mbox Format</A> +<H2><A NAME="ss14.1">14.1 How Sylpheed checks for Mime types</A> </H2> -<P>Sylpheed lets you import messages of the Mbox format from the File menu. First you create -the mail folder where you want the messages to end up in, then you select File->import -Mbox file. Use the browse function to select the Mbox file and the Sylpheed mail folder, -and press Ok. And voila, there is your mail, imported. -<P>That was easy, wasn't it? -<H2><A NAME="ss14.2">14.2 Importing from Windows Mailers (Becky!, AL-Mail, Outlook Express4, etc.)</A> -</H2> +<P>When attaching a file to a message (composing a new message), the +MIME type of the attached file is choosen based on the file extension +from the mapping list defined in the <I>mime.types</I> file(s). +Sylpheed defines its MIME type mapping table by loading the +system wide MIME types file, then the user file. +The systeme file is <I>SYSCONFDIR/mime.types</I> (SYSCONFDIR can +be defined a compile time), or if it does not exist, <I>/etc/mime.types</I>. +The user file is <I>$HOME/.sylpheed/mime.types</I>. +<P>A <I>mime.types</I> file consist of one MIME type definition per line, +each definition line starting with the name of the MIME type, followed by +a space separated list of the corresponding file extensions. +The file can contain empty lines, and comments start with the <CODE>#</CODE> +character and close at line's end. +<P>Following is a typical <I>mime.types</I> file (an extract of mine): +<P> +<PRE> +# This file controls what Internet media types are sent to the client for +# given file extension(s). Sending the correct media type to the client +# is important so they know how to handle the content of the file. +# The Internet media type registry is at +# <ftp://ftp.iana.org/in-notes/iana/assignments/media-types/>. -<P>For import possibilities of the mail folders of these and more mail programs you -can download the program mbx2mbox at sourceforge.net. The project is located at -<A HREF="http://mbx2mbox.sourceforge.net">http://mbx2mbox.sourceforge.net.</A><H2><A NAME="ss14.3">14.3 Importing dbx Format of Outlook Express 5</A> +# MIME type Extension +application/mac-binhex40 hqx +application/mac-compactpro cpt +application/msword doc +application/pdf pdf +application/postscript ai eps ps +application/rtf rtf +application/x-bcpio bcpio +application/x-bzip2 bz2 +application/x-csh csh +application/x-gtar gtar +application/x-gzip gz tgz +application/x-kword kwd kwt +application/x-kspread ksp +application/x-kpresenter kpr kpt +application/x-kchart chrt +application/x-latex latex +application/x-sh sh +application/x-shar shar +application/x-shockwave-flash swf +application/x-tar tar +application/x-tcl tcl +application/x-tex tex +application/x-texinfo texinfo texi +application/x-troff t tr roff +application/x-troff-man man +application/zip zip +audio/mpeg mpga mp2 mp3 +audio/x-aiff aif aiff aifc +audio/x-wav wav +image/gif gif +image/ief ief +image/jpeg jpeg jpg jpe +image/png png +image/tiff tiff tif +text/plain asc txt +text/rtf rtf +text/sgml sgml sgm +text/xml xml +video/mpeg mpeg mpg mpe +video/x-msvideo avi +text/html html htm +</PRE> +<P> +<P>If the file can be found or has the wrong format, Sylpheed will assume +the default MIME type for all the attachments: <I>application/octet-stream</I>. +In such a case, the recipients mail client may not know what application +to use to view the attachment. +<P> +<H2><A NAME="ss14.2">14.2 How Sylpheed handles attachments (reception)</A> </H2> -<P>For import possibilities of the mail folders of these and more mail programs you -can download the program mbx2mbox at sourceforge.net. The project is located at -<A HREF="http://mbx2mbox.sourceforge.net">http://mbx2mbox.sourceforge.net.</A><H2><A NAME="ss14.4">14.4 Exporting from Sylpheed MH format to mbox</A> -</H2> +<P>When opening an attachment (select the attachment, right click and select +<I>Open</I>) Sylpheed uses one of the following methods to determine +the application to launch: +<P> +<UL> +<LI>The attachment is an image: the application is the one defined by the +<I>mime_image_viewer</I> variable of the common preferences configuration +file (<I>$HOME/.sylpheed/sylpheedrc</I>). If no application is defined, or +if the format of the definition is not valid, the default application +command is <I>display</I> (ImageMagick viewer).</LI> +<LI>The attachment is a sound file: the application is the one defined by the +<I>mime_audio_player</I> variable of the common preferences configuration +file (<I>$HOME/.sylpheed/sylpheedrc</I>). If no application is defined, or +if the format of the definition is not valid, the default application +command is <I>play</I>.</LI> +<LI>The attachment is a HTML file: the application is the one defined by the +<I>uri_cmd</I> variable of the common preferences configuration +file (<I>$HOME/.sylpheed/sylpheedrc</I>). This can also be changed in the +<I>Common preferences</I>, by changing the <I>Web browser</I> defined +in the <I>Other</I> tab.</LI> +<LI>Any other attachment type: Sylpheed relies on <I>metamail</I> to use +the correct application (Sylpheed starts <I>metamail</I> giving it +the attachment file and the MIME type taken from the mail).</LI> +</UL> +<P> +<P>The binding of the applications to each MIME type is defined in the +<I>mailcap</I> file. The systeme wide file is <I>/etc/mailcap</I>, +while the user file is <I>$HOME/.mailcap</I>. +<P> +<P>In the mailcap file, there is one definition per line, big lines +can be broken by escaping the newline with a <I>\</I> character, +the first element of the line is the MIME type, then a semi-colon, +(<I>;</I>), and finally the application to launch. +The application part (right side of the semi-colon) can contain several +shell commands separated by an escaped semi-colon (<I>\;</I>) and +the <I>%s</I> string is replaced by the name of the file when +launching the command. +<P> +<P>Following is a typical <I>mailcap</I> file (an extract of mine): +<P> +<PRE> + +image/*; ee %s + +video/mpeg; gtv %s +video/*; xanim %s + +application/pdf; xpdf %s -<P>Sylpheed offers a way to export a mailbox to the standard mbox format through the -File menu. Just select the "Export to mbox file..." option and you can select the -folder to export (assisted by a browse dialog) and also select or enter the name -of the mbox file you wish to generate. +text/html; dillo %s +</PRE> +<P> +<P> <HR> <A HREF="sylpheed-15.html">Next</A> <A HREF="sylpheed-13.html">Previous</A> |