From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/22852 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: gdj1@gdjones.demon.co.uk (Gareth Jones) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Saving gzipped MIME parts. Date: 02 May 1999 17:55:46 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035160696 31499 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:38:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:38:16 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from farabi.math.uh.edu (farabi.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.57]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA08952 for ; Sun, 2 May 1999 12:57:45 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by farabi.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAB19015; Sun, 2 May 1999 11:57:00 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 02 May 1999 11:57:36 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA04548 for ; Sun, 2 May 1999 11:57:28 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from finch-post-10.mail.demon.net (finch-post-10.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.38]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA08940 for ; Sun, 2 May 1999 12:57:20 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from [158.152.158.57] (helo=gdjones.demon.co.uk) by finch-post-10.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 10dzXk-0000kD-0A for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 2 May 1999 16:56:40 +0000 Original-Received: (from gdj1@localhost) by gdjones.demon.co.uk (8.9.1/8.9.1) id RAA02441; Sun, 2 May 1999 17:55:47 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 13 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070084 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.84) Emacs/20.3 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:22852 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:22852 If a MIME part is application/octet-stream then jka is skipped to prevent files being compressed twice etc. But people sometimes send them as application/x-compressed or application/x-gzip which do get compressed when saved. Is there a good solution to this? For instance, should mm-save-part suppress jka if the extension of the attachment's filename is the same as the extension that the filename to which it's being saved? -- Gareth Jones What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure. S. Johnson