Re: Add Kris Warkentin to write after maintainers.

["Kris Warkentin" <kewarken@qnx.com>]

I also experimented with changing Windows mime type for *.diff to be text
but that didn't work.  Outlook still insisted on sending as
application/octet stream or some such.

Kris

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Cagney" <ac131313@redhat.com>
To: "David Carlton" <carlton@math.stanford.edu>
Cc: "Kris Warkentin" <kewarken@qnx.com>; <gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 3:04 PM
Subject: Re: Add Kris Warkentin to write after maintainers.


>
> > For what it's worth, the mailer that I use (GNUS) seems to think that
> > text/x-patch is the appropriate MIME type for patches.  Certainly I
> > agree that application/octet-stream is a bad idea, and frankly I think
> > just inserting patches into the buffer instead of attaching them is
> > easiest.  But there's a case to be made for attaching patches instead;
> > if so, I think text/x-patch is the way to go.  Hopefully, in that
> > case, any mailer will notice the text/ part and will be willing to
> > display the contents without too much coercion.
>
> Looks good in theory, I've seen problems with unknown types.
>
> Anyway, Kris has found that .txt works!
>
> Andrew
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