Re: [Nmh-workers] cruddy X-MH-Attach behavior

[Jon Steinhart]

address@hidden writes:
> 
> I have...
> 
>  send: -alias aliases -attach X-MH-Attach -attachformat 1
> 
> and just sent a PDF with the msg body in plain text via...
> 
>  What now? attach ~/Quote_GSCQ33155_1344264047128.pdf
> 
> resulting in...
> 
>  X-MH-Attach: /home/rader/Quote_GSCQ33155_1344264047128.pdf
> 
> I expected, would have liked to have sent, is the msg body as plain text.
> 
> What I actually received was the msg body encoded as application/octet-stream
> in base64.
> 
> Bug?  Fixed since nmh-1.3?
> 
> [Aside: I seem to recall this has happened before and doesn't happen with the
> old method of doing attachments.  My brain is increasingly feeble and thus I
> don't even remember the old #something format off the top of my head!  Nice.]
> 
> steve

Could be cruddy user behavior :)

What's your .mh_profile look like?  Have you told it what to do with PDF files?
If not, then it's pretty likely to default to application/octet-stream.

Jon