From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/42876 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mark Thomas Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: MIME Encoding of attachments Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 14:51:23 -0500 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 1035178059 14541 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 05:27:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 05:27:39 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 10360 invoked from network); 1 Feb 2002 23:32:47 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 1 Feb 2002 23:32:47 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16WnAU-0001SG-00; Fri, 01 Feb 2002 17:32:30 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 01 Feb 2002 17:32:14 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from epithumia.math.uh.edu (epithumia.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.2]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA10652 for ; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 17:31:56 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (from tibbs@localhost) by epithumia.math.uh.edu (8.11.2/8.11.1) id g11NVs206445 for ding@hpc.uh.edu; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 17:31:54 -0600 Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA09810 for ; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 13:51:40 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 548 invoked by alias); 1 Feb 2002 19:51:37 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 543 invoked from network); 1 Feb 2002 19:51:36 -0000 Original-Received: from dyn-68-91.wv.cc.cmu.edu (HELO svelte.home) (128.2.68.91) by gnus.org with SMTP; 1 Feb 2002 19:51:36 -0000 Original-Received: from mthomas by svelte.home with local (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16WjiV-0002XW-00 for ; Fri, 01 Feb 2002 14:51:23 -0500 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Mail-Copies-To: nobody Original-Lines: 19 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley, i686-pc-linux) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:42876 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:42876 I regularly deal with an MTA that wraps lines that are longer than ~~120 characters. This usually isn't a problem, but sometimes when I send an attachment as text/plain, it gets mangled. What is the "correct" way to handle this? Should I just use application/octet-stream as the type? Currently I set mm-use-ultra-safe-encoding to t, which seems excessive; besides, the doc-string for that variable says it should not be set directly. Instead of having Gnus decide how to encode a part on its own, is there some way I tell Gnus to use a particular encoding for a part? Some special "encoding" tag I can add to the MML line, for example? Cheers, -Mark