how to make mime recognize mail files
I store important mails inside ipfs, see my ideal file system.
Unfortunately, most of those I save are not recognized when they don’t have an extension.
My debian system already has a bit of mime magic to find out rfc822 files.
sed -n '/^\[50:message\/rfc822\]/,/^\[/ p' /usr/share/mime/magic
[50:message/rfc822]
>0= #! rnews
>0=
Forward to
>0= From:
>0= N#! rnews
>0= Pipe to
>0= Received:
>0= Relay-Version:
>0= Return-Path:
>0= Return-path:
>0= Subject:
[50:model/iges]
Somehow, it expects the metadata to be prefixed by a tabulation character, whereas my mails don’t have. They look like this
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="===============3140710037221646522=="
MIME-Version: 1.0
Subject: some subject
From: someaddress
To: someotheraddress
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2021 11:58:03 +0200
Message-Id: <someid>
--===============3140710037221646522==
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
...
--===============3140710037221646522==--
Let’s say that this content is put into ipfs, available via this link https://konubinix.eu/ipfs/bafkreih4ah2ymy7buqsxzqakpej4ou5edihfc6cfcg3vue2ikevnw5alei .
mimetype https://konubinix.eu/ipfs/bafkreih4ah2ymy7buqsxzqakpej4ou5edihfc6cfcg3vue2ikevnw5alei
https://konubinix.eu/ipfs/bafkreih4ah2ymy7buqsxzqakpej4ou5edihfc6cfcg3vue2ikevnw5alei: text/plain
Let’s try to put some more magic to recognize this one
Let’s put the following content in one of my xdg XDG_DATA_DIRS/mime/magic files.
[50:message/rfc822]
>0= From:+257
>0= Subject:+257
>0= To:+257
To be noted that the data before Subject, To and From are the size of the data. I also added a range value to avoid parsing the whole file.
Now, let’s try again.
mimetype https://konubinix.eu/ipfs/bafkreih4ah2ymy7buqsxzqakpej4ou5edihfc6cfcg3vue2ikevnw5alei
https://konubinix.eu/ipfs/bafkreih4ah2ymy7buqsxzqakpej4ou5edihfc6cfcg3vue2ikevnw5alei: message/rfc822
Much better.
Notes linking here
- how to setup an application using xdg mime (braindump)