Re: [Nmh-workers] Attaching a zip file

[Alexander Botero-Lowry]

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>  > > To attach a compressed tar file, say, /tmp/foobar.tgz, to an Email, I do
>  > > something like:
>  > > 
>  > > #application/octet-stream; \
>  > > type=tar; x-conversion=gzip; \
>  > > name=foobar.tgz  /tmp/foobar.tgz
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>  > > Could somebody take pity on an old man and tell me what I would do to 
> attach 
>  > > a zip file, say. /tmp/foobar.zip, to an Email?
>  > 
>  > I'd just do
>  > 
>  > #application/zip; name="foobar.zip" /tmp/foobar.zip
> 
> i'll attach a script i use for forwarding attachments.  it
> handles the common binary types i use, plain files, and mail
> messages, based on interpreting its arguments.  it produces the
You should really just use file(1) here. It will give you mime-types
and sutible descriptions for free, and doesn't rely on file extensions.

My remime script http://people.freebsd.org/~alexbl/remime uses the libmagic
bindings for pytohn for the same effect. I've also attached it. 

> it's far from perfect, i'm sure, but it saves me trying to remember how
> to compose mhbuild lines by hand.
I imagine a _lot_ of people have scripts like this :)

Alex

#!/usr/bin/env python
import sys, re, os 
import magic

msg = ''

descr_ms = magic.open(magic.MAGIC_NONE)
descr_ms.load()
mime_ms = magic.open(magic.MAGIC_MIME)
mime_ms.load()

for a in open(sys.argv[1]):
        if a.startswith('#remime: '):
                filename = a[9:].strip()
                if os.path.exists(filename):
                        a = '#%s; name="%s" <>[ %s ] %s\n' % 
(mime_ms.file(filename), os.path.basename(filename), descr_ms.file(filename), 
filename)
                else:
                        a = '\n'
        msg += a

msg_file = open(sys.argv[1], 'w')
msg_file.write(msg)
msg_file.close()

os.execvp('mhbuild', ('mhbuild', sys.argv[1]))