#3325: attachment type misdetection for small .tar.gz
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Reporter: anto...@dyne.org | Owner: mutt-dev
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: minor | Milestone:
Component: mutt | Version: 1.5.20
Resolution: | Keywords:
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Comment(by Derek Martin):
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On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 11:29:55PM -0000, Mutt wrote:
Who said they're encodings? I don't see them listed in the
Content-Transfer-Encodings section of the MIME RFCs, nor do I see them
mentioned anywhere pertaining to "encoded words", and I don't see any
other part of the RFCs that might suggest they should be classified as
encodings.
Classifying these as encodings seems impractically pedantic at best,
but more likely just plain wrong. They are application data, specific
to their respective compression applications. Note also that while
not an officially recognized IANA MIME type, on platforms other than
debian and derivatives, gzip does indeed appear in the MIME type
listings. This makes sense: once the e-mail is "decoded" and the
attachment saved to a file, the data is still gzipped. It is in fact
a non-text attachment, as was intended to be hanled by MIME. It
requires an "application" to use the data. It's no more an encoding
than HTML and MP3 are encodings (which, in fact, they are, though not
in the sense of the MIME RFCs as far as I can tell).
I think this is not a bug, but a system misconfiguration based on
bogus policy.
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