Francois Gouget fgouget@free.fr writes:
I recently discovered that xemacs does colorization of diffs when they have a .diff extension. So I changed the naming convention for my patches. Also if you modify '/etc/mime.types' to contain 'text/plain txt text diff' (soon to be the default in Debian) you can read such files without problem from within pine.
If you could convince pine to not encode your patches in base64 that would be even better. It makes my life easier when I can simply pipe the whole mail into patch, instead of having to decode mime stuff first. In fact unless your mailer mangles white space, simply putting the patch inline is better than as an mime attachment.