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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: gnus-dired-attach: default mime-type application/octet-stream, why
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 15:11:41 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87386vzgqq.fsf@building.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mwc37mh7.fsf@mat.ucm.es> (Uwe Brauer's message of "Sun, 20 Jul 2014 23:24:04 +0200")

Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:

> Why is the mime-type for gnus-dired-attach set for all attachments to
> application/octet-stream? 
>
> The relevant code is this 
>       (while files-to-attach
> 	(mml-attach-file (car files-to-attach)
> 			 (or (mm-default-file-encoding (car files-to-attach))
> 			     "application/octet-stream") nil)
> 	(setq files-to-attach (cdr files-to-attach)))      

It's only set to application/octet-stream if `mm-default-file-encoding'
isn't able to figure out what the type is.

> Which could be changed to 
> (while files-to-attach
> 		(mml-attach-file (car files-to-attach)
> 			 (or (mm-default-file-encoding (car files-to-attach))
> 			     type) nil)

Where does that `type' variable come from?

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2014-07-20 21:24 Uwe Brauer
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