From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/875 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mahesh Padmanabhan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: RTF attachment problem Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2002 15:30:15 GMT Organization: No News Is Good News Message-ID: <87wur5l3wd.fsf@nospam.eml.cc> References: <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 1138667758 8770 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:35:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:35:58 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:28:14 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!lackawana.kippona.com!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!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: 199.174.255.174 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net Original-X-Trace: newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net 1028561415 199.174.255.174 (Mon, 05 Aug 2002 08:30:15 PDT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2002 08:30:15 PDT Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:1015 Original-Lines: 43 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 1015 Tue Jan 17 17:28:14 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:875 Archived-At: Simon Josefsson writes: > Mahesh Padmanabhan writes: > > > 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 ? > > Just mark the CT incorrectly. The receiver probably couldn't handle > this. You mean, I should deliberately mark it incorrectly so that the receiving program cannot identify the content type and asks the user to save it ? How do I do it in GNUS ? > > > 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 ? > > It shouldn't make any difference. Can you do a diff between the two > messages to see what differed? The text of the message was the same. What differed is the attachment sent with the message. In one case it was an RTF attachment and in the other - a DOC attachement. Thanks, -- Mahesh Padmanabhan ------- Replace nospam with prana to email me.