From: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>
Subject: Mime headers relating to fax images
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 09:35:28 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3y9uuacs6.fsf@gnus.cvs.983032537> (raw)
[The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted to gnu.emacs.gnus as well.]
Running cvs gnus from 983032537
(Also posted to ding in case it is alpha code related)
I recently started using an online outfit to send and recieve faxes by
email ( www.eFax.com ). They perform an fax => to => email operation and send
it on to me.
The images they send me are *.tif images but they have mime content
headers that look like:
--==__==__A8420XZ382__==__==
Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="aeanvga9.tif"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: inline; filename="aeanvga9.tif"
Content-MD5: hQDlIJsGMxaNw/DKPKZWmg==
[...]
--==__==__A8420XZ382__==__==--
This confuses my mailcap settings since *.tif is considered an image
far as I know. I seem to recall seeing it listed as such in an RFC
once apon a time.
Is this something I should take up with eFax.com? Or is this
compliant with what RFCs have to say about mime?
I have a hunch gnus can do something for this that I don't know how to
do, but currently, gnus only offers to save the file for me.
For the time being I'm using a `procmail' solution and have it
rewrite the Mimeheaders replacing "application/octet-stream" with
"image/tif"
:0f
*^Subject:.*page eFax
## (line wrapped for mail - Note extra backslash)
|sed 's/\(^Content-Type: \)\(application\/octet-stream\)\
\(; name=\"[^.]*\.tif\"\)/\1image\/tif\3/'
The header shown above becomes:
Content-Type: image/tif; name="aeanvga9.tif"
I think this may lead to problems in the event something else that is
`application/octet-streem' is also mime encapsulated in the same
message, but at the present that isn't very likely.
Along with the mailcap setting:
`image/tif; viewfax %s'
This seems to work without breaking anything I've noticed, and gnus
opens them neatly with `viewfax'
But I have a feeling there are bigger issues here. Or is this just a
case of `eFax.com' blundering?
next reply other threads:[~2001-02-25 17:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-02-25 17:35 Harry Putnam [this message]
2001-02-25 19:33 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-02-25 20:31 ` Harry Putnam
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