Subject: bug#21331: 24.5; LibreOffice documents have less support than Microsoft Office docs (in Gnus?)

From: Michael Welsh Duggan <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 07:12:15 -0400

Richard Stallman <[email-masked]> writes:

>   > I guess this is related to mailcap.
>   > Examine your /etc/mailcap file and the value of Emacs's mailcap-mime-data.
>
> How can we get this fixed in everyone's mailcap file?

You can't (easily).  The system mailcap file is generally handled by the
GNU/Linux distribution.  You could automatically muck up a user's
~/.mailcap file, but that is not very friendly.  This should probably be
fixed by updating the mailcap-mime-data var mentioned by Glenn in
lisp/gnus/mailcap.el.  The entries in this variable are used if there is
no existing entry in a user's or the system's mailcap.  As this appears
to be the case in the original bug report, that would likely fix this
problem.

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Michael Welsh Duggan
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