[Sorry that it took me so long to respond...] * Alain Bench <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-10 23:24]: > Hello Thomas, and thank you for your reports. > > On Friday, June 9, 2006 at 11:38:33 +0200, Thomas Bleher wrote: > > > When trying to attach > > http://www.cip.ifi.lmu.de/~bleher/mutt-mime-bug.tar.gz , mutt assigns > > the file the type and encoding "text/plain, quoted, utf-8" > > The foolable heuristic Mutt uses to guess text or binary attachment > type would not be used at all if there was a tar.gz entry in one of the > mime.types files. Example I have this line in /usr/local/etc/mime.types > (straight from Mutt tarball): > > | application/x-tar-gz tgz tar.gz > > And attaching your file shows [applica/x-tar-gz, base64, 1,4K].
Thank you for this very helpful answer. I think that this line should be added to the mime.types file. I'd still like to keep this bug open, though, because mutt's heuristics could be improved[0], and in doubt it should send data as application/octet-stream to avoid mangling them. Maybe mutt could also use file(1) to determine the type of data. Thanks, Thomas [0]: In this case, looking for embedded NULLs would have been enough (4th byte of the file in question). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
