Re: Sending attachments

[Reiner Steib]

On Wed, Jul 08 2009, Jason Rumney wrote:

> Richard Stallman wrote:
[...]
>> A suitable front-end to mml-attach-file could avoid asking all the
>> annoying questions.
>
> It is probably reasonable to use a type of application/octet-stream,

Please don't follow the bad behavior of MS Outlook.  mml-attach-file
figures out the suitable default by consulting the MIME type / Mailcap
files.  application/octet-stream is more or less a fallback for
arbitrary binary data, see RFC 2046
<http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2046#section-4.5.1>.

> disposition of attachment and have no description for simple
> attachments.  So the only absolutely necessary question is the
> filename.

We could add an option as we do when using drag and drop to attach a
file:

,----[ <f1> v mml-dnd-attach-options RET ]
| mml-dnd-attach-options is a variable defined in `mml.el'.
| Its value is nil
| 
| Documentation:
| Which options should be queried when attaching a file via drag and drop.
| 
| If it is a list, valid members are `type', `description' and
| `disposition'.  `disposition' implies `type'.  If it is nil,
| don't ask for options.  If it is t, ask the user whether or not
| to specify options.
| 
| You can customize this variable.
`----

Bye, Reiner.
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