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

2010-03-23 Thread Lisi 
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


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

2010-03-22 Thread Mike Viau 

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 22:29:05 -0500 ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote:
 
 On 2010-03-22 21:56, Mike Viau wrote:
  Mon, 22 Mar 2010 22:29:01 -0400 ml...@post.harvard.edu wrote:
   
On 23:37 Fri 19 Mar , Mike Viau wrote:
   My output with the suggestion above.
  
  
   debian:~# dpkg --dry-run --purge $(join -v2 (awk '{if 
  ($2==install)
   print $1}'  debian-5.04-base-selections | sort) (dpkg 
  --get-selections |
   awk '{if ($2==install) print $1}' | sort)) bash: command 
  substitution:
   
I like your idea.
  
  Credit goes out to Mike Bird /mgb/-/debian/@/yosemite/./net/
  +1
  
Would you post the file debian-5.04-base-selections or give us a 
  reference?
  
  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.)
 
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Thanks for the information, I wasn't aware of that...



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

2010-03-22 Thread Tom Furie 
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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