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Re: metasend: how to specify *name* of attachment?
- To: http://www.cs.utk.edu/~moore (Keith Moore)
- Subject: Re: metasend: how to specify *name* of attachment?
- From: http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (robert)
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 14:06:29 -0500
- In-Reply-To: <199901042253.http://www.spot.cs.utk.edu/~RAA02301>
- Keywords: metamail
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.mime
 > From: http://www.cs.utk.edu/~moore (Keith Moore)
 > Date: Mon  Jan  4, 10:58pm
 >
 > > However, there are plenty of user agents that will deal better with the
 > > name= parameter on the Content-Type header than with the filename=
 > > parameter of the Content-Disposition header.
 > 
 > Except for applicaiton/octet-stream, those user agents are broken.
 > 
 > > Adding Content-Disposition to metasend isn't all that hard though; I
 > > did it by adding a -N filename option, and arranging things such that
 > > if that option was given, a disposition of "attachment" was used, otherwise
 > > it was treated as "inline".  Just look for all the instances of code
 > > supporting the existing Content-Description header, and add additional
 > > variables and code modelled on that.
 > 
 > I've done much the same thing to my version of metamail, which
 > (along with other portability fixes) I plan to release in a few days.
 > 
 > Keith
Hi.  Did you release this code (metamail)?
Also, you might consider my patch that's in
http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert/software/procmail/mime.shtml
It makes the -x flag work better.