gnatsweb attachments

["Austin Bingham" <abingham@lips.utexas.edu>]

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I noticed that there was some discussion of 
gnatsweb attachments a while back. Some of our gnats users have expressed a 
desire to have gnatsweb attachments treated as regular mail attachments when 
they are notified of PR creation, etc., and I think this is a very reasonable 
request.
 
It looks like gnats web makes a good effort to make 
it's attachments MIME-compliant, but the rest of the mail info is not written to 
allow the files to be treated as full mail attachments. I could be way off base, 
but based on how other mails seem to indicate their attachments, I think that's 
accurate. Basically, it looks like the notification mail has to claim to be a 
multi-part mime file with a part-boundary defined.
 
One way to approach this issue, which was forwarded 
by someone earlier, is to have an official recognition of file attachments 
in the GNATS core. This would be nice, but it would require some time and effort 
on someone's part. Are there any other ideas? I think this would be a very handy 
extension to current GNATS functionality.
 
Austin Bingham Laboratory for Intelligent 
Processes and Systems University of Texas at Austin abingham@mail.utexas.edu