path: root/mail/mail-identify.c

/* -*- Mode: C; tab-width: 8; indent-tabs-mode: t; c-basic-offset: 8 -*- */

/*
 * Author :
 *  Dan Winship <danw@helixcode.com>
 *
 *  Copyright 2000, Helix Code, Inc. (http://www.helixcode.com)
 *
 *  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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 *  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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 *
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 *  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 *  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 *  GNU General Public License for more details.
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 */

#include <config.h>

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>

#include <glib.h>
#include <libgnome/libgnome.h>
#include "mail.h"

/**
 * mail_identify_mime_part:
 * @part: a CamelMimePart
 *
 * Try to identify the MIME type of the data in @part (which presumably
 * doesn't have a useful Content-Type).
 **/
char *
mail_identify_mime_part (CamelMimePart *part)
{
    GMimeContentField *content_type;
    const char *filename, *type;

    content_type = camel_mime_part_get_content_type (part);


    /* Try identifying based on name in Content-Type or
     * filename in Content-Disposition.
     */
    filename = gmime_content_field_get_parameter (content_type, "name");
    if (filename) {
        type = gnome_mime_type_or_default (filename, NULL);
        if (type)
            return g_strdup (type);
    }

    filename = camel_mime_part_get_filename (part);
    if (filename) {
        type = gnome_mime_type_or_default (filename, NULL);
        if (type)
            return g_strdup (type);
    }


    /* Try file magic. */
    /* FIXME */


    /* Another possibility to try is the x-mac-type / x-mac-creator
     * parameter to Content-Type used by some Mac email clients. That
     * would require a Mac type to mime type conversion table.
     */


    /* We give up. */
    return NULL;
}