Hello,
Mutt always has been overly verbose with sent MIME headers, stating
obvious defaults, even when it's a useless waste of space. The attached
patch-1.5.13.ab.send_minimal_mime.3 reduces this verbosity to the strict
minimum. It will not generate "Content-Disposition: inline" header when
there is no filename, not generate "-Transfer-Encoding:" when it's 7bit,
not generate "-Type:" when it's plain Ascii text, and finally not
generate "MIME-Version: 1.0" when there are no "Content-*:" headers at
all. Of course, Mutt will continue to generate any needed MIME field and
usefull parameter.
Some friends and me use older versions of this patch since years,
and this v3 since some weeks, without any single problem.
Warning: It touches crypto code indirectly, where some headers are
hashed and signed (both PGP/MIME and S/MIME). I believe and verified
it's harmless: What will get signed is eventually the absence of a
header, thus a forced default value, and there is no room for tampering.
But it needs a TLR seal of approval.
Bye! Alain.
--
Mutt muttrc tip to send mails in best adapted first necessary and sufficient
charset (version for Western Latin-1/Latin-9/CP-850/CP-1252 terminal users):
set send_charset="us-ascii:iso-8859-1:iso-8859-15:windows-1252:utf-8"
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