Re: Yarn Makes bad MIME attachments
From: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes (sthoenna@efn.org)
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 01:05:32 -0800
In article <200001242314.PAA16257@ shell1.ncal.verio.com>,
Howard Schwartz <theo@ncal.verio.com> wrote:
>I wonder if previous posts have pointed out an obvious deficiency
>in the way yarn creates MIME encoded attachments? If you select
>``attachment'' when you send some mail, and fill out yarn's resulting
>dialogue box, yarn asks you for a file name and a description.
>
>In the header for your attachment yarn then puts:
>
> Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="filename"
>
>In principle this is only correct for attachments that are
>executable programs.
AFAIU, octet-stream is appropriate for unknown content which may be binary.
To correct it, simply select the Edit option from the menu immediately
after doing the Attach.