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Re: [Mutt] #3325: attachment type misdetection for small .tar.gz



#3325: attachment type misdetection for small .tar.gz
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  Reporter:  antonio@xxxxxxxx  |       Owner:  mutt-dev
      Type:  defect            |      Status:  new     
  Priority:  minor             |   Milestone:          
 Component:  mutt              |     Version:  1.5.20  
Resolution:                    |    Keywords:          
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Comment(by Derek Martin):

 {{{
 On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 11:29:55PM -0000, Mutt wrote:

 Who said they're encodings?  I don't see them listed in the
 Content-Transfer-Encodings section of the MIME RFCs, nor do I see them
 mentioned anywhere pertaining to "encoded words", and I don't see any
 other part of the RFCs that might suggest they should be classified as
 encodings.

 Classifying these as encodings seems impractically pedantic at best,
 but more likely just plain wrong.  They are application data, specific
 to their respective compression applications.  Note also that while
 not an officially recognized IANA MIME type, on platforms other than
 debian and derivatives, gzip does indeed appear in the MIME type
 listings.  This makes sense: once the e-mail is "decoded" and the
 attachment saved to a file, the data is still gzipped.  It is in fact
 a non-text attachment, as was intended to be hanled by MIME.  It
 requires an "application" to use the data.  It's no more an encoding
 than HTML and MP3 are encodings (which, in fact, they are, though not
 in the sense of the MIME RFCs as far as I can tell).

 I think this is not a bug, but a system misconfiguration based on
 bogus policy.
 }}}

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