[imp] Binary attachments given mime type text/plain. why?

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting Ahmed <ashihab at alcahest.com>:

| Anyone seen this?
|
| I'e been trying to send an .exe file to customer but had to rename the
| .exe to .xex to avoid MS exchange from removing it.
|
| However, when I attach the file as normal it is given the "text/plain"
| mime-type instead of the more generic and correct
| "application/octet-stream". This consequently causes the file to be
| wrongly handled and corrupted.

Does this happen with all executable files?  If so, it is possible that .xex
is a text format recognized by your OS/browser, so that when you upload it
your browser is reporting it as text/plain data to IMP (which we MUST
honor).

If it is specific only to this file, then we should be looking elsewhere (do
you have mime magic support turned on?)

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at bigworm.colorado.edu]
The University of Colorado at Boulder