[imp] mime types - everything application/octet-stream?

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

Quoting bill parducci <bill@parducci.net>:

> i have noticed that no matter what i attach when composing a note with imp it
> is created as mime type 'application/octet-stream'.
> 
> Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="china.html"
> Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="BOOTLOG.TXT"
> Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="MONKEYS_.JPG"
> Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="gunpoll.jpg"
> 
> is this a configurational issue or does imp only differentiate mime types
> when *reading* mail?  

IMP believes the browser; if the browser says "that file I just uploaded is 
type text/plain", then IMP sends it as text/plain. So check your browser 
configuration.

-chuck

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Charles Hagenbuch, <chuck@horde.org>
"We have no fuel on board, plus or minus 8 kilograms." -A NASA scientist