From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/34167 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Matthias Wiehl Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Send compressed postscript as attachment? Date: 09 Jan 2001 17:01:44 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <87elycu32v.fsf@fulmine.dhs.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035170143 28971 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 03:15:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:15:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from lisa.math.uh.edu (lisa.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.49]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 223DED049E for ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 14:28:32 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by lisa.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAB19340; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 13:27:53 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 09 Jan 2001 13:27:09 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from epithumia.math.uh.edu (IDENT:root@epithumia.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.2]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA07855 for ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 13:27:02 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (from tibbs@localhost) by epithumia.math.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA18335 for ding@hpc.uh.edu; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 13:27:28 -0600 Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@66-209.196.61.interliant.com [209.196.61.66] (may be forged)) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA07305 for ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 12:43:19 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.net [194.221.183.20]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 5B1ABD049E for ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 13:43:44 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (qmail 27919 invoked by uid 0); 9 Jan 2001 18:43:36 -0000 Original-Received: from f-dialin-1346.addcom.de (HELO fulmine.dhs.org) (62.96.144.154) by mail.gmx.net (mail05) with SMTP; 9 Jan 2001 18:43:36 -0000 Original-Received: from mwiehl by fulmine.dhs.org with local (Exim 3.20 #1 (Debian)) id 14G1DV-000373-00; Tue, 09 Jan 2001 17:01:45 +0100 Original-To: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) In-Reply-To: X-Face: "IK&7^mmE*H#DJHw<9-,C1^m,*V+bD@KMXVY(Y2.>C>K]NWV*VfC$s&3Zt[uHI|S"gE5kkB _+<+A85X@4o1jmy:u%dAKGt"[b!FlsAuU!5-zCL.(JEBy~h*NC@](UM0&g3B[P4C|h-}^zO|sH&%~> User-Agent: Gnus/5.090001 (Oort Gnus v0.01) XEmacs/21.1 (Crater Lake) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Original-Lines: 18 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:34167 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:34167 Kai Großjohann 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?