From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/80140 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dave Abrahams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Why is Gnus decompressing my attachment? Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 11:46:36 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1317398352 14997 80.91.229.12 (30 Sep 2011 15:59:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 15:59:12 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M28434@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Sep 30 17:59:07 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R9fUR-0000zx-0R for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 30 Sep 2011 17:59:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1R9fTA-00075A-8y; Fri, 30 Sep 2011 10:57:48 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1R9fT8-000752-Av for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 30 Sep 2011 10:57:46 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1R9fT6-0006IB-LT for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 30 Sep 2011 10:57:45 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1R9fT3-0004Ir-Ny for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 30 Sep 2011 17:57:41 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R9fT2-0000Bc-SH for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 30 Sep 2011 17:57:40 +0200 Original-Received: from 207-172-223-249.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.static.cable.rcn.com ([207.172.223.249]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 30 Sep 2011 17:57:40 +0200 Original-Received: from dave by 207-172-223-249.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.static.cable.rcn.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 30 Sep 2011 17:57:40 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 36 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207-172-223-249.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.static.cable.rcn.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/23.3 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:tLbCTzqyDe9DGF+93yzp4p4qKlE= X-Spam-Score: -5.4 (-----) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:80140 Archived-At: on Thu Sep 29 2011, Katsumi Yamaoka wrote: > Dave Abrahams wrote: >> I'm not sure why sending is failing either ... but the big mystery here > >> is why Gnus/message would decompress the archive. > >> Sending... >> XZ uncompressing /tmp/YAC2011.mov.xz...done >> Sending via mail... >> message-send-mail-with-sendmail: Sending...failed with exit value 75 > > Hm, I don't know why it failed. But decompression should not be > to blame. Decompressed data are never passed to m-s-m-w-sendmail. > > Decompression is done for only determining the charset of > a compressed part; the charset is added to the Content-Type header > of a part if successfully detected. This is mainly for Gnus users' > convenience. Try viewing the part attached to this message using > the `i' command. > (A Japanese text will be displayed in a human-readable way in spite > of the part that is charset-encoded and compressed. This is > convenient when viewing a compressed patch file that contains > non-ASCII text and is sent as an application/octet-stream part, > for example. Currently only tar archives are excluded from > detecting charset.) > > You may want to try another approach. Good luck. Thanks. -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com