From: Matthias Wiehl <mwiehl@gmx.de>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Send compressed postscript as attachment?
Date: 09 Jan 2001 17:01:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87elycu32v.fsf@fulmine.dhs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vafhf38spye.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
Kai Großjohann <Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE> writes:
> Right now, I "gzip foo.ps", then make an attachment using `C-c C-a'
> and specifying foo.ps.gz as file name. But this suggests
> application/octet-stream as content-type.
>
> How do I do this such that the recipient can click on it without
> having to save it to disk first?
A note in the file /etc/mime.types on my Debian installation states
that compression schemes like gzip were not actually mime-types, so
the mime-type of an encoded file "refers to the type of data that has
been encoded, not the type of the encoding".
Thus, I'd suggest specifying "application/postscript" as
content-type for your file.
Does this help?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-01-09 16:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-09 15:30 Kai Großjohann
2001-01-09 16:01 ` Matthias Wiehl [this message]
2001-01-09 23:35 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-01-10 8:27 ` Steinar Bang
2001-01-10 13:49 ` ShengHuo ZHU
2001-01-09 18:58 ` Jorge Godoy
2001-01-09 23:37 ` Kai Großjohann
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