[VM] Re: Strange MIME handling

[John Hein]

Göran Uddeborg wrote at 14:00 +0000 on Mar 25, 2011:
 > Den 2011-03-24 skrev Uday Reddy <address@hidden>:
 > > When VM can't find any way to display a particular MIME object, it calls 
 > > the handler for application/octet-stream as a last resort, which then 
 > > prompts for a file name and saves the attachment there.
 > 
 > You mean automatically?  That doesn't happen to me.
 > 
 > An application/octet-stream part of a message shows up as a "button".
 > If I click on it with button-2, or use "$ w", I get a prompt asking
 > for a file name.  But by default it just sits there.
 > 
 > Did I misunderstand something?

I've never noticed it in the wild either.

But Uday may be talking about the case where the mime object is not anything
known to vm (or not marked at all?), and it throws up its hands and decides to
use application/octet-stream - that is, not the case where it's already
marked as application/octet-stream to begin with.