Hello Thomas,
On Wednesday, August 16, 2006 at 23:00:30 +0200, Thomas Bleher wrote:
>>| application/x-tar-gz tgz tar.gz
> I think that this line should be added to the mime.types file.
Upstream Mutt mime.types has it. To add it to Debian or Ubuntu,
please see the package owning mime.types.
> I'd still like to keep this bug open, though, because mutt's
> heuristics could be improved
It could surely be improved, but it's a quite delicate mechanism, a
carefully equilibrated compromise. Past experiences changing the
text/binary balance always ended fixing one case while breaking others.
Look at sendlib.c functions update_content_info() and
mutt_make_file_attach(), or grep for "(hi|lo)bin". Very roughly, when
control chars are below 10%, it's considered text. If you have an
improvement idea with only positive effects, please speak.
> in doubt it should send data as application/octet-stream to avoid
> mangling them.
When "in doubt" is the whole point; When doubtless, there is no
problem. This would lead to send some texts as octet-stream, which is
neither good.
> In this case, looking for embedded NULLs would have been enough (4th
> byte of the file in question).
This would disallow NULs in text.
Bye! Alain.
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