Patches & MIME

Ben Wing wrote: [ 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 Internet: darrylo(a)sr.hp.com DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Hewlett-Packard, or of the little green men that have been following him all day.