Not by the mail server as such, no, at least not for that reason. However, T-bird likely sends .txt as text/plain and .R as application/octet-stream (or so) and _therefore_ the server eliminates the latter and lets the former pass.
-pd > On 20 Feb 2017, at 15:45 , Rui Barradas <ruipbarra...@sapo.pt> wrote: > > Hello, > > I use Mozilla Thunderbird and I don't see a way of teaching it about the mime > type. > My understanding is that files with the .R extension are eliminated by the > r-help mail server, but .txt pass. Is this correct? > > Rui Barradas > > Em 20-02-2017 14:15, Martin Maechler escreveu: >>>>>>> Rui Barradas <ruipbarra...@sapo.pt> >>>>>>> on Sat, 18 Feb 2017 13:47:02 +0000 writes: >> >> > Helo, No attachment came through. Change the file >> > extension from .R to .txt and resend, there aren't many >> > types of files r-help accepts. >> >> > Rui Barradas >> >> >> As a matter of fact, one would have to blame the e-mail program >> you use. The file extension is *not* equivalent to the file >> type, and the mailing list software accepts the (MIME) type text/plain >> and a couple of others. >> >> The problem with most modern e-mail clients/programs/apps/... is that >> they use something you could translate as "unknown binary format" >> as type for their attachments if they can't guess the correct >> file type from the file extension. >> It would be interesting to know (for me) if there are modern >> e-mail programs / web apps which you could *teach* about the >> mime type, e.g., for all files ending with extension '.R'... >> >> Martin Maechler >> ETH Zurich, Seminar fuer Statistik, >> == the provider of all the (standard) R mailing lists. >> >> >> > Em 17-02-2017 17:20, Allan Tanaka escreveu: >> >> .... >> >> .... See attached for R script >> > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor, Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Office: A 4.23 Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
