From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/871 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mahesh Padmanabhan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: RTF attachment problem Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2002 01:01:58 GMT Organization: No News Is Good News Message-ID: <871y9e9kzi.fsf@nospam.eml.cc> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138667756 8760 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:35:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:35:56 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:28:14 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!news.ccs.neu.edu!news.dfci.harvard.edu!news.cis.ohio-state.edu!usenet01.sei.cmu.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!snoopy.risq.qc.ca!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Sender: mahesh@chakra Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.2 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.245.26.194 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net Original-X-Trace: newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net 1028509318 66.245.26.194 (Sun, 04 Aug 2002 18:01:58 PDT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2002 18:01:58 PDT Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:1011 Original-Lines: 25 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 1011 Tue Jan 17 17:28:14 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:871 Archived-At: I was trying to send an RTF (which is the ASCII equivalent of the Microsoft DOC format ) as an attachment to an email but the receiver got it as a corrupted file. When I sent it, it asked me if the MIME type should be application/msword and I said yes to that. I then converted the RTF file to a DOC file and sent it in an identical manner and this time the receiver got it correctly. My questions are: 1) What does GNUS do if you give the wrong mime type, i.e. application/msword for an RTF file ? 2) Why does it do it since I thought MIME type made no difference if you saved the document at the receiving end and opened it ? TIA, -- Mahesh Padmanabhan ------- Replace nospam with prana to email me.