Ben Wing wrote:
> patches in text/plain!
> kyle, your bot should reject patches that aren't.
[ Ben recently sent me an audio message describing the problem in more
detail, and asked me to send a suggestion to Kyle. ]
Ben's complaint is not about MIME and/or the MIME encoding
(e.g., base64 -- as I and others mistakenly inferred), but that the MIME
type and subtype are typically "application/octet-stream", which his
mailreader can't (easily) handle (it's marked as an attachment, and the
text is not displayed to the user). For patches, encoding such as
base64 is fine, but the MIME type/subtype should be something like
"text/plain" instead of "application/octet-stream". He says that this
is really a bug in gnus.
I took a look at my mailer (mh-e), and my patches are being sent
out as application/octet-stream instead of text/plain due to bugs in TM.
I'll fix this in a day or two and submit patches (which I realize
probably won't make it into 21.0).
Ben also suggests that Kyle's patchbot be modified to automatically
translate incoming application/octet-stream to text/plain (if
appropriate).
-- Darryl Okahata
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