>>>>> Dmitri Paduchikh wrote:
> In some cases Gnus sends application/octet-stream attachments in
> unencoded form:

> ,----
>| --=-=-=
>| Content-Type: application/octet-stream
>| Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=test.sh
>|
>| #!/bin/sh
>| echo test
> `----

> I am concerned that contents can change when transferring a message.
> Think of EOL conversions, ">From " stuff, etc. Such changes can corrupt
> shell script, for example.

> In general, RFC 2046 says that application/octet-stream denotes
> arbitrary binary data. For arbitrary binary data I would expect that it
> is transferred exactly as is, even if it looks like a 7-bit text.

Agreed.  Aren't there any other application/* types that should
not be forced to be encoded by 7bit?  Otherwise, is it better not
to force the 7bit encoding to all application/* types?

Here are two patches; one is for excluding application/octet-stream,
the other is for excluding application/*.