Attachment compression and file types..

[Martin.Hepworth]

Jules

Yeah I know - I'll sort the MUA so it forwards inline..

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Martin Hepworth
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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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> > Solid State Logic
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