3.2.8 The mime Statement

Syntax

mime {
  # Define additional textual mime types.
  text-type PATTERN;
  # or
  text-type ( PATTERN-LIST );
}

Description

The mime compound statement is used by utilities that process MIME messages, in particular mail, readmsg, and decodemail. As of mailutils version 3.10 it contains only one statement:

Configuration: text-type pattern

Configuration: text-type ( pattern-list )

Defines additional patterns for recognition of textual message parts. The pattern is a shell globbing pattern that will be compared against the ‘Content-Type’ header of a MIME message part in order to determine whether it can be treated as a text part. In second form, pattern-list is a comma-separated list of such patterns.

In both forms, the new patterns are appended to the built-in textual pattern list, which contains:

• text/*
• application/*shell
• application/shellscript
• */x-csrc
• */x-csource
• */x-diff
• */x-patch
• */x-perl
• */x-php
• */x-python
• */x-sh