Re: [Pan-users] multipart messages with "application/octet-stream" attachments

[K. Haley]

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John F. Waymouth wrote:

| I frequent a news server that's attached to a web bulletin board.
| Attachments to posts are unilaterally converted to MIME/multipart,
| and their content-type seems to always be "application/octet-stream",
| even though they're always images.  I was under the impression that
| pan could read multipart attachments, but it seems to completely
| ignore them.  I'm using pan 0.14.0 on userforums.jasc.com
| (http://forums.jasc.com to register).
|
| Is it a lost cause?  So far no linux newsreader I've come across
| handles things anywhere close to as well as pan does except mozilla,
| and even it won't display these attachments inline.  It's angered me
| for other reasons, so I'm hoping to make pan my newsreader of choice
| if I can get a few problems figured out.
|
I've seen images with that type as well.  It annoyed me enough to fix
the problem.  I put an enhancement request along with a patch on
bugzilla.  The patch will display images with a content type of
application/octet-stream.  It also displays a message regarding any
attachments that can't be displayed such as zip files.

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