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

[Lisi <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>]

On Tuesday 23 March 2010 03:29:05 Ron Johnson wrote:
> 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.)

KMail opens it as text.

Lisi