[MlMt] Content-type header viewing behaviors

[Bill Cole]

On 2022-04-12 at 10:42:18 UTC-0400 (Tue, 12 Apr 2022 10:42:18 -0400)
Benjamin Coddington <mailmate at lists.freron.com>
is rumored to have said:

> Hi Benny, et al.
>
> Something's changed out in my mail world recently such that emails of
> plain-text patches for development work that used to arrive with:
>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"; x-default=true
>
> Now arrive with:
>
> Content-Type: application/octet-stream; x-default=true

Whoever is generating that mail needs a stern talking-to...

> This causes my MM (1.13.2 (5673)) to forego displaying the body, and only
> presents the attachment dialog.  I'd love to be able to override this
> behavior, if possible.  Is there a way to do that?

I doubt that MM can do that in any automatic way. There would be substantial safety concerns with generally forcing the display of arbitrary binary data (i.e. 'application/octet-stream' content type) as plain text, and message headers in IMAP are immutable, so you can't just modify the Content-Type header on the relevant messages that you can trust are in fact displayable text.

I assume you know about the "View->Show Raw Message" (cmd-opt-u) menu command & find it wanting...



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