Re: Attachment decode issue

[Kurt Hackenberg]

On Fri, Mar 28, 2025 at 05:49:24PM -0400, Kurt Hackenberg wrote:
Background:  I received an e-mail with an attached ZIP file 
(base64-encoded), where the attachment had the following mime headers:
  Content-Type: text/plain; name="name.zip"
  Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

I think that's a bug in the software that generated the message, not a 
bug in Mutt. That Content-Type: is wrong. It should be application/zip 
if that exists, else application/octet-stream.

Application/zip exists, and has since 1993.
<https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/media-types.xhtml>

This message has a small zip file attached, unless the mailing list 
software stripped it off. Anyway, Mutt automatically generated:

Content-Type: application/zip
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="five.zip"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

You could do the same test -- attach a zip file to a message -- with 
Mutt or any mail reader.
<<attachment: five.zip>>