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List:       kde-bugs-dist
Subject:    Bug#1844: Bogus text/english attachment type
From:       Mark Brown <broonie () tardis ! ed ! ac ! uk>
Date:       1999-08-29 23:43:23
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Package: kmail
Version: 1.0.17

A user using this version of KMail with a SuSE 6.2 system has been
sending me mail with plain text attachments.  Unfortunately, KMail
identifies them as being of type text/english rather than the usual
text/plain and so my mail client (mutt) gets confused about how to 
handle them and won't let me read them in the way I would expect.  
As far as I can tell the configuration is pretty much the default one.
Since IANA has no record of this media type and a brief survey of 
handy technical users revealed precisely zero people who had heard of
text/english this seems to be a problem with KMail rather than any other
software.

Part of the problem may be the fact that KMail is using base64 to encode
what should be plain text - this would certainly not encourage mutt to
let me treat it as plain text.

This could well be a packaging issue, but unfortunately I don't have
access to the box with the problem.  If it's not a KMail problem I 
apologise for wasting your time.

-- 
Mark Brown  mailto:broonie@tardis.ed.ac.uk   (Trying to avoid grumpiness)
            http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/
EUFS        http://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/

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