Re: Changing attachment mime type

[Thomas Roessler]

On 2002-09-10 10:40:46 -0300, Bruno Lustosa wrote:

I received a message from someone using outlook containing an 
email attached (*.eml). Unfortunately, outlook sends the 
attachment as application/octet-stream, so mutt can't really 
recognize it automatically. Then I open the message in mutt, hit 
ctrl-e and change the type to message/rfc822.

What content-transfer-encoding was used for that body part?  base64?

In that case, the message which results from changing the  
content-type would violate applicable standards and mutt's  
expectations...  Fixing this is, of course, possible, but would  
considerably complicate some code.

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Re: Changing attachment mime type

[Bruno Lustosa]

Thomas Roessler [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
 On 2002-09-10 10:40:46 -0300, Bruno Lustosa wrote:
 
 I received a message from someone using outlook containing an 
 email attached (*.eml). Unfortunately, outlook sends the 
 attachment as application/octet-stream, so mutt can't really 
 recognize it automatically. Then I open the message in mutt, hit 
 ctrl-e and change the type to message/rfc822.
 
 What content-transfer-encoding was used for that body part?  base64?
 
 In that case, the message which results from changing the  
 content-type would violate applicable standards and mutt's  
 expectations...  Fixing this is, of course, possible, but would  
 considerably complicate some code.

Text part (the message) is quoted-printable, attachment is base64, as
you guessed.

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Bruno Lustosa, aka Lofofora  | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Network Administrator/Web Programmer | ICQ UIN: 1406477
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Changing attachment mime type

[Bruno Lustosa]

Hello, I found what seems to be a bug.
Well, it IS a bug. Don't know if it is mutt's or LookOut's.

I received a message from someone using outlook containing an email
attached (*.eml). Unfortunately, outlook sends the attachment as
application/octet-stream, so mutt can't really recognize it
automatically.
Then I open the message in mutt, hit ctrl-e and change the type to
message/rfc822. After opening the message again, it displays its
contents normally. Inside this attached message, there is an attached
windows media movie (*.wmv). And AGAIN, it shows up wrongly, this time
as a text/plain. And there comes what I think might be a bug in mutt.
In the pager, it displays the attachment as:

[-- Type: video/x-ms-wmv, Encoding: base64, Size: 1.0M --]
[-- video/x-ms-wmv is unsupported (use 'v' to view this part) --]

However, hitting v to view the message's attachments shows the
attachment as:

I 3 no description [text/plain, 7bit, 1.4M]

Apparently, mutt displays the message correctly in the pager display
(correct type, correct size). In attachment menu, it shows up encoded
(bigger size, text/plain).
I tried hitting ctrl-e in attachment menu to change it's type to
video/x-ms-wmv, but it stills shows the same (only thing that changes is
the text/plain to video/x-ms-wmv, but content is still the same,
encoded).
I know I can just save it to a file and try to decode it manually using
the usual mime tools, but I wanted people to know about it, and
enlighten me if this is not a bug in mutt (of course, the brokeness of
outlook could do anything!).

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Bruno Lustosa, aka Lofofora  | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Network Administrator/Web Programmer | ICQ UIN: 1406477
Rio de Janeiro - Brazil  |



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