From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2419 invoked by alias); 24 Feb 2003 20:12:44 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 2405 invoked from network); 24 Feb 2003 20:12:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hub.ott.qnx.com) (209.226.137.76) by 172.16.49.205 with SMTP; 24 Feb 2003 20:12:43 -0000 Received: from smtp.ott.qnx.com (smtp.ott.qnx.com [10.0.2.158]) by hub.ott.qnx.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA06959; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 15:00:37 -0500 Received: from catdog ([10.4.2.2]) by smtp.ott.qnx.com (8.8.8/8.6.12) with SMTP id PAA13086; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 15:12:42 -0500 Message-ID: <012d01c2dc41$10c6e390$0202040a@catdog> From: "Kris Warkentin" To: "Andrew Cagney" , "David Carlton" Cc: References: <001101c2d9f8$7a7303f0$2a00a8c0@dash> <1030222020400.ZM18826@localhost.localdomain> <1030222021025.ZM18868@localhost.localdomain> <003301c2da28$71ce7ce0$2a00a8c0@dash> <3E5A4ABD.1080706@redhat.com> <01be01c2dc25$306f33d0$0202040a@catdog> <3E5A52BD.8030409@redhat.com> <3E5A60B2.50207@redhat.com> <3E5A7AB2.2010005@redhat.com> Subject: Re: Add Kris Warkentin to write after maintainers. Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 20:12:00 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 X-SW-Source: 2003-02/txt/msg00600.txt.bz2 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" To: "David Carlton" Cc: "Kris Warkentin" ; 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 > > >