Re: Multipart/Alternative

From: A.R. & F.L. Scott-Thoennes (sthoenna@peak.org)
Date: Sat, 04 Jan 1997 22:05:18 -0800

In article <clXzyUJ/BgKZ092yn@checksix.allcon.com>,
tro@checksix.allcon.com (Olaf Scherdin) wrote:
>In article <XzLzyo3qBmfO092yn@airmail.net>,
>pcrown@airmail.net (Phil Crown) wrote:
>
>>I'll second this. The "Process MIME message..." box is annoying.
>
>No. Receiving news which are HTML-encoded is weird, so I'd welcome an
>option of what NOT to diplay.
>
>>I'd like to be able to turn it off completely.
>Of course, this would be a wise decision - just as in the case with the
>prompt for leaving Yarn on ESC :)
>
>Talking about MIME support I'd also be happy about that being more featured.
>It should be possible to set the correct MIME-coding if I
>send a multpart message. The way it is now, every file I attach is
>encoded as "octet stream" so that the receipient has to save the file
>first before he can access is.

You can edit the message after doing the attach to change the content type.