On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 19:24 +0300, Saulius Krasuckas wrote:
Hm. The page shows it's type as "x-patch". Even pine on my mail server knows it is a text file which can be easily viewed. Still winehq server/mail-manager converts the type to "application/octet-stream".
May it have something to do with the content of /etc/mime* ?
No, it's simple really. Pipermail stores all attachments in as .bin files. I believe this is to prevent any possible server hacks by emailing attachments that could get executed locally by the server. This was possible in hypermail by emailing a .cgi or a .php file. When you click that link the file would be executed. I worked around it by disabling those extensions in the directories where hypermail is.
When you click the link, apache sees .bin, which will always return a mime type of application/octet-stream.
The only way to work around that is for pipermail to use a cgi program which would send the correct mime type when you download a file.