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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:  closed  
  Priority:  minor             |   Milestone:          
 Component:  mutt              |     Version:  1.5.20  
Resolution:  invalid           |    Keywords:          
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Comment(by vinc17):

 Replying to [comment:1 Derek Martin]:
 > 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.

 FYI they are encodings for HTTP ([http://www.rfc-
 editor.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt RFC 2616]) to allow transparent decompression.
 Unfortunately this isn't supported for the mail (e.g. there's no standard
 way to tell the MUA that some attachment is compressed text/plain so that
 it can display the uncompressed text as if it were not compressed in the
 first place).

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