Bug 20839 – mime-types for sending attachments don't work in Sylpheed-claws.

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description aardvark 2003-05-12 08:01:36 UTC]

With Sylpheed-claws 0.8.11, attaching something to a mail you compose always gives 
it the mime-type "application/octet-stream" . It should use a file "mime.types" in /etc to 
assign mime types, but that does not work out of the box. The ebuild uses a patch to  
get sylpheed to use the "shared mime info" database , but this does apparently also 
not work properly. 
 
A fix would be  to disable the patch and use mime-types as a dependency.  
"emerge mime-type"  will put the "mime.types"  file in /etc. Sylpheed-claws will use it 
when the patch is not applied, hence giving proper mime type functionality.  
 
This report is based on my own tests and experiences on 2 different fresh installations.

[Comment 1 Luca Barbato 2003-05-13 12:56:30 UTC]

Strange if I remove the patch I got the same behaviour.

The patch itself just add the /usr/share/mime/globs to the file sylph looks into.

seems that the issue exists but is completely unrelated to the patch

[Comment 2 aardvark 2003-05-13 14:10:05 UTC]

I removed the line in the ebuild where the patch is applied 
emerged mime-types 
emerged sylpheed-claws 
 
and it works fine now. 
 
(BTW the normal sylpheed works properly with a patch applied.) 

[Comment 3 Luca Barbato 2003-05-15 12:02:08 UTC]

Does it happen on every -claws version

[Comment 4 Luca Barbato 2003-05-15 18:28:45 UTC]

reemerge please, now it works as should

[Comment 5 aardvark 2003-05-20 18:08:54 UTC]

Sorry... 
 
just did: 
 
emerge sync 
emerge sylpheed-claws 
 
Mimetypes are still broken. 
I'll rip out the patch line again to get it working 

[Comment 6 Luca Barbato 2003-05-20 18:26:40 UTC]

maybe you rsync from slow syncing mirror, please rsync again


and please check that the patch has the following line::

+               while (*p && (isspace(*p)||(*p=='*')||(*p=='.'))) p++;

[Comment 7 aardvark 2003-05-21 11:18:44 UTC]

I am glad to inform you that it now DOES work!! 
 
Hurray to bugfixing! 
 
 

[Comment 8 Luca Barbato 2003-05-21 11:30:51 UTC]

ok, closing it then