Re: gmail vs. "text/html"

[Per Bothner <per@bothner.com>]

Benjamin Kosnik wrote:
> Yo people. There seems to be some kind of config change on sourceware
> sites, where I can no longer send email to the usual gcc lists with a
> patch attachment from gmail.
> 
> I keep getting bounced, with the reason being an attachment of
> "text/html" type being given as the reason.
> 
> 
> <libstdc++@gcc.gnu.org>:
> Invalid mime type "text/html" detected in message text or
> attachment.  Please send plain text messages only.
> See http://sourceware.org/lists.html#sourceware-list-info for mailing
> list info for this site.
> Contact libstdc++-owner@gcc.gnu.org if you have questions about this.
> (#5.7.2)
> 
>  Is there a way to name patches for attachment such that it
> will work? Is there any other way around this? I've tried the usual
> patch suffixes in the hopes that they would magically work, but ".txt"
> and ".patch" don't seem to do the job either.
> 
> Is there a way to work around this in gmail?

Maybe gzipping the file works?

(The reasons for forbidding appropriately-scrubbed HTML messages
seem a bit last-century ...  For example worrying that an HTML message
is some trivial multiple larger than a plain-text message seems rather
silly these days.)
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