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Re: Mail clients attaching files (was Re: [SOLVED] How to reduce a debian system to a base system)



On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 10:29:05PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 2010-03-22 21:56, Mike Viau wrote:

>> Attached for you convenience!
>> sourced from: Debian Lenny
>
> Next time you attach such a file, I suggest that you add a ".txt" so  
> that your email/webmail app knows that it is a text file, instead of  
> base64 encoded application/octet-stream.
>
> (Iceweasel/Thunderbird seems to "peek" into it, probably using some  
> built-in libmagic and knows to set the attachment to be inline  
> text/plain.  Don't know what Mutt, Sylpheed, KMail and Evolution do.)

Mutt sees that there is no mailcap entry for it, and so views it as
text. That's fine in this case, but for other files certain manual
intervention would be required.

Cheers,
Tom

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