"Steven W. Eubanks" said:
I seem to have run into a snag trying to configure MHonArc (currently 1.2.2
with upgrade to 1.2.3 pending) to enable it to successfully handle MIME
attachments of the new 'application/vnd.*' content-type definition. I've
mhonarc only handles wildcard definitions of the form (see mhreadmail.pl,
search 'MIMEFilter'):
whatevertype/asubtype
whatevertype/*
but not
whatever/isa*
made the requisite MIMEFILTERS additions, but everytime I try to send an
application/vnd.* (eg: application/vnd.ms-excel) MHonArc returns with a
"Could not process..." warning. I'm thinking the filter code in
mhexternal.pl is unable to parse the '.' period in the content-type
definition; if I change both the mail client and MHonArc configuration to
use a different content-type for that same MIME attachment, it works fine.
I've tried modifying the "Get content-type" portion of mhexternal.pl
without any success thus far.
Does anyone know if I'm heading in the right direction or have a fix for
this? I've tried scanning the archive for similar problems, but at 64
bytes/sec it could be quite awhile. ;-)
[Poor guy. I get 130 bytes/sec when surfing in NASAs web pages :-)]
When I add to the resourcefile
<mimefilters>
application/vnd.ms-excel:m2h_external'filter:mhexternal.pl
</mimefilters>
Mhonarc 1.2.2 works as expected for me. It creates a html file :
Next is a application/vnd.ms-excel
Works?
pseudo application/vnd.ms-excel (realy a tcl script)
The where the last line points to 00000.bin
If you what mhonarc to write a file like vnd00001.vnd you must
(AFAIK) patch mhexternal.pl and add entries like that:
%CTExt = (
...
'application/vnd.ms-excel', 'vnd',
...
%CTType = (
...
'application/vnd.ms-excel', '??A vnd MS-Excel file??',
...
Hope this helps,
Achim
P.S. It would be nice if one could specify a extention=.vnd, and
description="bla bla" in mimefilterargs for the mhexternal.pl
TIA. Cheers.
Steve
