Attachment compression and file types..

[Julian Field]

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Martin.Hepworth wrote:
> Jules
>
> Had a another 'interesting' day with this yesterday.....
>
> One thing that fell out the mix was if people forward a message there's
> a fair chance of the message body getting set as an attachment, not
> inline.
>
> So the recipient only sees the MessageAttachment.zip with no message
> body! This confuses the user, at which I'm not surprised.
>   
That should only happen if you forward as an attachment, and not if you 
forward inline. My code checks to see if the attachment disposition is 
"attachment".
> Should as add MIME Type: text/plain to the Don't compress list, or is
> there a better way?
>   
The attachment disposition is a better way. Or else you have to not 
compress text/html either, which may be exactly not what you want.
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> Martin Hepworth
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