On Apr 15, 2009, at 5:29 AM, Hyrum K. Wright wrote:
> Thanks for working with me on this, I can verify the patch was
> attached with the correct mime-type. Unfortunately, you've *also*
> run across the "tigris mailing list software is broken with
> attachments" bug, and your mail has been repeated twice below (but
> the attachment is still included, oddly enough). Copying jackr to
> let me know about it.
I'm startled, and a bit alarmed, to see Hyrum claim that his review
machinery depends on the sending MUA getting the MIME type right. I've
been fighting to get MUAs to support MIME properly for 20 years, and
was not aware that victory was close enough to make such a dependency
worth its weight. I would have guessed, rather, that the initial
problem was that the file name, perhaps because of a typo, had the
extension ".html-patch" (a dash where, perhaps, a dot would have
helped).
The report that the file works on the same machine where it was
created is considerably less help than one might suppose, as single
machines have many secret channels to tell themselves how to do it
right; somewhat fewer but still many exist among several machines of
the same type. What MIME is all about is extending this degree of
hintage into the heterogeneous world, such as Hyrum's (looks like
Linux?).
However, all that aside ... cataloging and assigning Tigris mail-list
botches at the moment is considerably more "fun" than anyone really
needs to have. I'm not sure how many, or precisely which, of the known
problems have cropped up in the history of this thread, but it does
seem to be a pretty impressive sampling. Hyrum is now reviewing, so he
evidently got the text somehow, but "how" is not clear from the thread.
I think that the original attempt was on the right track, and would
have worked except for the unfortunate file-name typo. Am I wrong
about that?
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