From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/53244 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Content-type: text/plain Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 15:08:27 +0200 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1056460209 10833 80.91.224.249 (24 Jun 2003 13:10:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 13:10:09 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M1788@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Jun 24 15:10:04 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19UnYi-0002oG-00 for ; Tue, 24 Jun 2003 15:10:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19UnXO-0004jj-00; Tue, 24 Jun 2003 08:08:42 -0500 Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com ([64.157.176.121]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19UnXG-0004jd-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 24 Jun 2003 08:08:34 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 59560 invoked by alias); 24 Jun 2003 13:08:33 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 59548 invoked from network); 24 Jun 2003 13:08:33 -0000 Original-Received: from 178.230.13.217.in-addr.dgcsystems.net (HELO yxa.extundo.com) (217.13.230.178) by sclp3.sclp.com with SMTP; 24 Jun 2003 13:08:33 -0000 Original-Received: from latte.josefsson.org (yxa.extundo.com [217.13.230.178]) (authenticated bits=0) by yxa.extundo.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h5OD8RB4002397 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=OK) for ; Tue, 24 Jun 2003 15:08:29 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Payment: hashcash 1.2 0:030624:ding@gnus.org:13ab6220480e0e64 X-Hashcash: 0:030624:ding@gnus.org:13ab6220480e0e64 In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Tue, 24 Jun 2003 02:35:50 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:53244 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:53244 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > The MML code doesn't usually insert the default content type because > that would be kinda redundant. But more importantly, it makes the > MIME look uglier than it has to, which I think is kinda yucky. There > are people out there still living in caves without a MIME-capable mail > reader, and we should keep things as nice as possible for them. > > The only problem is that Microsoft Outlook doesn't understand MIME > standards, so it gets all confused by parts that don't have a > Content-Type header. > > So the question is: Insert or not? Do or dump? Exactly what happens in Outlook when a part doesn't have a Content-Type header? Is there a suitable variable for these kind of workarounds? E.g., (add-to-list 'mml-workarounds 'always-add-content-type). IMHO, it should be customizable regardless of what the default is.