On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 01:50:13AM -0700, Gary Johnson wrote:
> On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 06:19:55AM -0600, Duke Normandin wrote:
> > I can't seem to send a message with a zipfile attached properly. It is
> > received at the other end as 'text/plain' or something. Anybody have an
> > idea of what I'm doing wrong? TIA...
>
> My first thought is that you don't have an entry for zip files in your
> mime.types file. It should look like this:
>
> application/zip zip
>
> See section 5.2 of the mutt manual for more on the mime.types files.
Not the problem... have that in all along; and I've got a mime.types in
$HOME and /etc. My SMTP server queues my outbound mail for delivery at my
convenience (I'm on a dial-up), so I'm able to look at the applicable
message. The zipfile is in there -- only thing is, the recipient insists
that it's grunged when he receives it. I can send the same zipfile with
OE and no problems!! Go figure? Thanks for the input.
> On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 10:16:07PM -0600, Duke Normandin wrote:
> > Is it me - or is it Mutt? I can't send a freaking zipfile w/o having the
> > sucker grunged at the other end. I experimented with changing the
> > encoding even -- to 7bit instead of base64. I'd like to have *no*
> > encoding but can't see how that's done. Anybody else having trouble
> > sending zip attachments?
>
> Not me, but a fried of mine was having this trouble just last week
> trying to send a tar file. His mailer (not mutt) base64-encoded the tar
> file but gave it a Content-Type of text/plain. Somewhere in the
> process, the LFs in the tar file got converted to CR-LF pairs. He
> solved it by changing the Content-Type to octet-stream.
>
> So using the proper Content-Type for your zip file may fix this problem
> as well.
>
> HTH,
> Gary
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-duke
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
