mailing list attachments (was: __long64_t not declared AIX 5.3.0.50, gcc 4.0.2)

[Bob Proulx]

Paul Eggert wrote:
> Perry Smith writes:
> > I sent it to myself as well and I got the attachment.  Looking in my
> > outbox, the attachment is on all three notes.
> 
> Very strange.  I didn't get the attachment in either of the
> two emails you sent via the address@hidden mailing list.

I checked the mailing list configuration and there is nothing there
enabled that I can see that would be stripping attachments.  In the
recent past other people have posted attachments okay.  Examples:

  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2006-08/msg00025.html
  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2006-10/msg00175.html

> Looking at the mailing list archive (which lags behind realtime by a
> day or so), the most recently sent attachment
> <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2006-10/msg00237.html>
> got expanded inline.

I looked at the copy of that message in my mailbox and see this:

  Content-Type: text/x-csrc
  Content-Disposition: inline; filename=intparam1.c
  Content-Description: Bruno Haible's integer parameter program

Because it was sent with "inline" disposition I think expanding it
inline is the right thing for it to have done.  The others were sent
with disposition "attachment".

> Also, lists.gnu.org was down for a few hours recently.  Maybe
> they've changed how they handle attachments, and no longer allow
> binary ones.  That would be bad.

I think Mailman is still the same version at 2.1.5.

> In the meantime, can you please send the info to bug-coreutils as
> plain ASCII text, without attaching it?  Thanks.

I think keeping it simple is always a good course of action.

Bob