Message-ID: <87a89cpojy.fsf@rosalinde>
Date: 2017-02-23T21:47:29Z
From: Stephen Berman
Subject: R scripts attached to e-mails - correct MIME type ?!
In-Reply-To: <22698.63999.756178.367552@stat.math.ethz.ch> (Martin Maechler's message of "Mon, 20 Feb 2017 15:15:27 +0100")
On Mon, 20 Feb 2017 15:15:27 +0100 Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote:
>>>>>> Rui Barradas <ruipbarradas at sapo.pt>
>>>>>> on Sat, 18 Feb 2017 13:47:02 +0000 writes:
>
> > Helo, No attachment came through. Change the file
> > extension from .R to .txt and resend, there aren't many
> > types of files r-help accepts.
>
> > Rui Barradas
>
>
> As a matter of fact, one would have to blame the e-mail program
> you use. The file extension is *not* equivalent to the file
> type, and the mailing list software accepts the (MIME) type text/plain
> and a couple of others.
>
> The problem with most modern e-mail clients/programs/apps/... is that
> they use something you could translate as "unknown binary format"
> as type for their attachments if they can't guess the correct
> file type from the file extension.
> It would be interesting to know (for me) if there are modern
> e-mail programs / web apps which you could *teach* about the
> mime type, e.g., for all files ending with extension '.R'...
Well, there's Gnus in Emacs:
(add-to-list 'mailcap-mime-extensions '(".R" . "text/x-rsrc"))
But I guess you know that ;-)
Steve Berman