Re: [Pan-users] multipart messages with "application/octet-stream" attachments

[Per Hedeland]

"K. Haley" <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>John F. Waymouth wrote:
>
>| I frequent a news server that's attached to a web bulletin board.
>| Attachments to posts are unilaterally converted to MIME/multipart,
>| and their content-type seems to always be "application/octet-stream",
>| even though they're always images.  I was under the impression that
>| pan could read multipart attachments, but it seems to completely
>| ignore them.  I'm using pan 0.14.0 on userforums.jasc.com
>| (http://forums.jasc.com to register).
>|
>| Is it a lost cause?  So far no linux newsreader I've come across
>| handles things anywhere close to as well as pan does except mozilla,
>| and even it won't display these attachments inline.  It's angered me
>| for other reasons, so I'm hoping to make pan my newsreader of choice
>| if I can get a few problems figured out.
>|
>I've seen images with that type as well.  It annoyed me enough to fix
>the problem.  I put an enhancement request along with a patch on
>bugzilla.  The patch will display images with a content type of
>application/octet-stream.  It also displays a message regarding any
>attachments that can't be displayed such as zip files.

Sounds great - do you have a pointer to the patch? I couldn't find it in
bugzilla (may well be due to incompetence on my part...).

--Per Hedeland
address@hidden