Re: [Patch] Improved mm-display-part for application/octet-stream

[Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>]

On Thu, Jan 19 2006, Geoff Kuenning wrote:

> I am constantly frustrated by correspondents with broken mailers who
> send me attachments that are identified as application/octet-stream,
> even though they have a specific type (90% of the time it's .doc;
> another 9% is .pdf) that should be identified as such.

In <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/46385>, Stefan Monnier
addressed the same or similar problems.  But his patch (against the
stable branch = Gnus 5.11 in Emacs CVS) doesn't apply in the current
development sources and I didn't have time to resolve it manually yet.

> Since I can't do the right thing and fix the broken mailers, I did the
> next best thing: I revised mm-display-part to pick out the proper type
> based on the file extension.  The revised version is below.  The first
> "when" clause is new; everthing else is the same.

A unified (or context) diff would be nicer.

> If people like the idea, I'd like to see it get into the main tree
> (how do I make that happen?).

Maybe you could investigate if Stefan's patch fits your needs?
I don't know if it works for your Gnus version (5.9), though.

Bye, Reiner.
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