Heinrich Mueller posted on Tue, 28 Jun 2011 10:21:41 +0200 as excerpted: > Normally attachments are yEnc-encoded with uuencode, then sent. The > message text is discarded for now, as it would be the same message for > possibly 100s of files anyway.
OK, that answers another problem/question I had, what was happening to the text post I expected to appear along side the binary files. (Yes, the binaries did post once I changed the cachedir perms approriately. But the text post that was supposed to accompany them didn't appear and I wondered why. Now I know.) Could the text appear as another post, beside the others? That's what I expected. Meanwhile, the binary posts all seem to strip the references header. If the original post triggering them (the one the user selects files to post on) is a reply, the references header shouldn't IMO be stripped but instead should remain, so the posts ultimately end up threaded under the post the user was replying to when he selected the files to post. Finally, could the encoding type be made user-selectable? For posts to for example gmane, the mailing list to news and back gateway, most readers will be seeing the message in their /mail/ clients, many of which don't implement yenc. That's the problem I just had (the guy with the question got the files but couldn't read them). Being able to select encoding type would eliminate that issue. Ideally, one selectable encoding type would be "identity", which would post plain text files directly, identity-encoded aka unencoded. Obviously this would break with binaries, but for text files the zero- encoding-overhead and maximum receiver compatibility looks enticing indeed. Basically, the post would be a text post containing the content of the text file as its body. As it happens, that would have been exactly what I needed for the case above where the recipient couldn't decode the yenc encoded files, as the files involved were xorg config files from xorg.conf.d. (Yeah, I expected they'd end up yenc and wondered if he could read them, but couldn't pass up the chance to play with my new pan file-posting feature toy! As it turns out its good I did, as at minimum, I had that umask and consequent cachedir directory issue to work thru. But in any case I do far more tech-lists postings these days than binaries, and I think it has actually been over two years since I even touched the binary groups, so text/identity-encoding would actually be far more useful to me than yenc, even if I /can/ basically do the same thing with copy/paste from a text editor.) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
