From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/60416 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Katsumi Yamaoka Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: attachments automatically decompressed before sending? Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2005 15:23:19 +0900 Organization: Emacsen advocacy group Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1118125815 31969 80.91.229.2 (7 Jun 2005 06:30:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2005 06:30:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M8943@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Jun 07 08:30:12 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DfXaf-0001oy-IJ for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 07 Jun 2005 08:29:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1DfXUx-0004eX-00; Tue, 07 Jun 2005 01:23:39 -0500 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1DfXUs-0004eS-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 07 Jun 2005 01:23:34 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1DfXUq-0001Bs-M3 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 07 Jun 2005 01:23:32 -0500 Original-Received: from minsk.hostforweb.net ([66.225.201.21]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1DfXUp-0008RR-00 for ; Tue, 07 Jun 2005 08:23:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by minsk.hostforweb.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.50) id 1DfXUv-0001p3-3h; Tue, 07 Jun 2005 01:23:37 -0500 Original-To: David Abrahams X-Face: #kKnN,xUnmKia.'[pp`;Omh}odZK)?7wQSl"4o04=EixTF+V[""w~iNbM9ZL+.b*_CxUmFk B#Fu[*?MZZH@IkN:!"\w%I_zt>[$nm7nQosZ<3eu;B:$Q_:p!',P.c0-_Cy[dz4oIpw0ESA^D*1Lw= L&i*6&( User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:T23cyB3hCyPoBlU4I9uH/PiQIOM= X-Hashcash: 1:20:050607:dave@boost-consulting.com::p8+LT3YohneRvL5G:000000000000000000000000000000000000CyWi X-Hashcash: 1:20:050607:ding@gnus.org::LLgKcCt9B/w0oQso:0000GkpL X-Antivirus-Scanner: Clean mail though you should still use an Antivirus X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - minsk.hostforweb.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - gnus.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - jpl.org X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-Spam-Score: -4.9 (----) Precedence: bulk Original-Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:60416 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:60416 >>>>> In 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.