Mutt Attachments

Today I updated my resume and sent it out to a prospective employer for part-time summer work. When I attached the pdf, I forgot to check the mime type, and the recipient said when they opened my resume, it was blank. After some quick googling, I found that mutt looks for a ~/.mime.types file (and afterwards $PREFIX/share/mutt/mime.types. Unfortunately, when I installed mutt, it didn't install the file into that location, and so the mime type wasn't correctly set. So I saved the mime.types from a clean, unzipped distribution of mutt as ~/.mime.types. Just frustrating that I didn't see an easy way to change the mime encoding for the attachment within mutt. All better now, though :-)

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