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Re: feature request: don't show text attachments that have filenames

#952
From: Matthew Eldridge
Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 00:21
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kyle_jones@wonderworks.com (Kyle Jones) wrote in message news:<abfavg$26ae$1@ice.wonderworks.com>...
> Matthew Eldridge <eldridge@t-ram.com> wrote:
>  > I'd like so suggest a new configuration variable which lets me be more
>  > picky about how mime attachments are presented.  In general, I want to
>  > see text attachments presented inline, except when it is an attachment
>  > of the 3MB text file that is my simulation output.
> 
> You should declare such objects as application/octet-stream.
> This is the official type for undifferentiated binary data that
> you only want to save to a file.

I wish that I could do that, but the people mailing me these
attachments have already chosen their type, and there's little
I can do about it after the fact, without getting much
more clever in my procmail use.

So the question is really more like "I sometimes get stupidly formatted
email, and I'd like knobs inside VM to make the mail a bit more
intelligently formatted."

Thanks,

-Matthew
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Subject: Re: feature request: don't show text attachments that have filenames
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