change content type of attachment before sending

[Uwe Brauer]

Hi

Sometimes I by error want to sent a simple text file
but erroneously

as application/octet-stream instead of text/x-tex.

Can I change the content type before sending (I can of course edit the
attachment line but this is not what I mean)


thanks

Uwe Brauer

[Andreas Schwab]

Post by Uwe Brauer
Can I change the content type before sending

mml-attach-file prompts you for the type.

Andreas.

[Uwe Brauer]

Post by Andreas Schwab
mml-attach-file prompts you for the type.

I know that. What I meant is:

Suppose I filled in the prompts and later recognized that I chose the
wrong type, how can I change the type (without editing the TAG)

Post by Andreas Schwab
Andreas.

[Adam Sjøgren]

Post by Uwe Brauer
Suppose I filled in the prompts and later recognized that I chose the
wrong type, how can I change the type (without editing the TAG)

How about deleting the tag and attaching the file again?

What is wrong with editing the tag?!


Best regards,

Adam

[Uwe Brauer]

Post by Adam Sjøgren

Post by Uwe Brauer
Suppose I filled in the prompts and later recognized that I chose the
wrong type, how can I change the type (without editing the TAG)

How about deleting the tag and attaching the file again?

Because than I have to type (may be) the whole path of the directory.
Usually I use gnus-dired-attach, but there I don't know how to chose the type

Post by Adam Sjøgren
What is wrong with editing the tag?!

But what if I don't know the type? The beauty of the interactive call is that it
offers various possibilities which I never remember by heart.

Post by Adam Sjøgren
Best regards,
Adam

[Adam Sjøgren]

Post by Uwe Brauer

Post by Adam Sjøgren
How about deleting the tag and attaching the file again?

Because than I have to type (may be) the whole path of the directory.
Usually I use gnus-dired-attach, but there I don't know how to chose the type

So the underlying problem is that gnus-dired-attach doesn't prompt you
for the type?

Post by Uwe Brauer

Post by Adam Sjøgren
What is wrong with editing the tag?!

But what if I don't know the type?

Then you'll have a hard time choosing it from an interactive list.


Best regards,

Adam

[Uwe Brauer]

Post by Adam Sjøgren

Post by Uwe Brauer

Post by Adam Sjøgren
How about deleting the tag and attaching the file again?

So the underlying problem is that gnus-dired-attach doesn't prompt you
for the type?

Right, once I try to cook something up, modify gnus-dired-attach, but it
never worked.

Post by Adam Sjøgren

Post by Uwe Brauer

Post by Adam Sjøgren
What is wrong with editing the tag?!

But what if I don't know the type?

Then you'll have a hard time choosing it from an interactive list.

This is why it is good to have a choice offered, as does mml-attach-file,

So it would be good to have a function say
mml-attach-change-type which acts on the TAG but offers what
mml-attach-file offers.

[Adam Sjøgren]

Post by Uwe Brauer

Post by Adam Sjøgren

Post by Uwe Brauer

Post by Adam Sjøgren
What is wrong with editing the tag?!

But what if I don't know the type?

Then you'll have a hard time choosing it from an interactive list.

This is why it is good to have a choice offered, as does mml-attach-file,

Uhm, no.

Post by Uwe Brauer
So it would be good to have a function say
mml-attach-change-type which acts on the TAG but offers what
mml-attach-file offers.

Wouldn't it be even better to fix the problem at the root,
gnus-dired-attach?


Best regards,

Adam

[Eric S Fraga]

On Sunday, 1 Nov 2015 at 17:25, Uwe Brauer wrote:

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Post by Uwe Brauer
But what if I don't know the type? The beauty of the interactive call
is that it offers various possibilities which I never remember by
heart.

I am confused. In your OP, you said you wanted to erroneously set the
type, e.g. to application/octet-stream. Either you know what you want
to set to (erroneously) or the problem is a more fundamental one in your
mailcap settings? That is, if I misunderstood you and you in fact want
to correct erroneous file types, the problem is not with mml-xxx but
with your system's settings which mml uses to determine file types.

[Uwe Brauer]

On Sunday, 1 Nov 2015 at 17:25, Uwe Brauer wrote: [...]

Post by Uwe Brauer
But what if I don't know the type? The beauty of the interactive
call is that it offers various possibilities which I never
remember by heart.

I am confused. In your OP, you said you wanted to erroneously set
the type, e.g. to application/octet-stream. Either you know what
you want to set to (erroneously) or the problem is a more
fundamental one in your mailcap settings? That is, if I
misunderstood you and you in fact want to correct erroneous file
types, the problem is not with mml-xxx but with your system's
settings which mml uses to determine file types.

Ok here is the longer story. It concerns Xemacs and GNU emacs, tex files
and latin-1 and UTF-8 encoding.

Xemacs 21.5.X still uses Mule, while GNU emacs has moved to UFT-8
internally as far as I know.

Now the problem is the following:

- I send a latex file with latin-1 chars, buffer coding is set to
latin-1, via gnus as text/x-tex type to a Xemacs user: the
coding is corrupted.

- I send a latex file with latin-1 chars, buffer coding is set to
UTF-8, via gnus as text/x-tex type to a Xemacs user: the
coding is ok.

Now

- the user sends it back, but now it is the other way around: if he
sends using buffer coding is set to latin-1 via gnus as text/x-tex type
to me: the coding is ok

- The user sends it back, buffer coding is set to
UTF-8 via gnus as text/x-tex type me: the
coding is corrupted.

GNU emacs ---UTF8-> Xemacs OK
Xemacs ---latin-1-> GNU emacs ok

The problem can be circumvent using application/octet-stream then both
buffer codings are fine.
But I don't want that for every latex file.

That is why I want to be able to change the mml type, in case I made a
mistake, or using the dired function (since this much more comfortable
to use) which would allow me to chose the coding


Uwe Brauer

[Eric S Fraga]

Post by Uwe Brauer
Ok here is the longer story. It concerns Xemacs and GNU emacs, tex files
and latin-1 and UTF-8 encoding.

Okay, so I did understand your OP correctly. In this case, how many
different types of files will you want to set? Not many, probably only
application/octet-stream, so doing it manually seems like the right
solution...

Anyway, good luck with your search for a solution! At least there's a
possibility you'll achieve it as it's gnus+emacs and not something else
:-)