attachments automatically decompressed before sending?

attachments automatically decompressed before sending?

[David Abrahams]

I just went through the trouble of compressing an archive before
enclosing it in an email, and what happens when I send but:

   bunzip2ing /tmp/mtl4.tar.bz2...done

What is the meaning of this?  Is it sending the archive in some
decompressed form?  If so, how do I get it to stop?

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
www.boost-consulting.com

Re: attachments automatically decompressed before sending?

[Katsumi Yamaoka]

>>>>> In <u3brvt05f.fsf@boost-consulting.com> David Abrahams wrote:

> I just went through the trouble of compressing an archive before
> enclosing it in an email, and what happens when I send but:

>    bunzip2ing /tmp/mtl4.tar.bz2...done

> What is the meaning of this?  Is it sending the archive in some
> decompressed form?  If so, how do I get it to stop?

Uncompression is done to contents of the file inserted in a
buffer, not to the file itself.  The purpose is to examine the
charset and put it in the MIME header if it is possible.  It
might be useful for the recipients to decode the part and
display it as text.  However, I realized it is meaningless to do
that for tar files.

I've fixed it in the Gnus CVS trunk.  Thanks.