[Alpine-info] Alpine seems to corrupt my saved attachment...

[Matt Ackeret]

On Wed, 18 Nov 2009, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote:

>A minimal example would be really helpful for confirmation, but see below 

>anyway.


yeah sorry.. This is a source code repository file, and I wanted to ask
before I spent time making up an example.


>I'm not sure what all settings I have that apply to attachments, but if 

>you go to the ATTACHMENT INDEX from MESSAGE VIEW ( listed as '> ViewAttch' 

>), you can 'Save' from there, without viewing.  I believe that prevents 


Sorry, maybe I wasn't clear.  That's exactly what I was doing.


>the aforementioned conversion(s).  (And if not, try 'Export' from that 

>same page -- though I found it odd I couldn't 'Export' a MIME part with an 

>application/pgp-signature MIME type...)


Nope, it won't let me export:

       [Can't Export Text. Use "Save" to write file, "<" to leave index.]

So the file is a ".c,v" (a CVS repository file), and alpine thought it was
text, so did character set conversion on it..  That seems very bad to me.

If I were *viewing* the file, I could understand/expect it to do the conversion
while viewing it.

I guess now I want a way to turn off ALL character set conversion for 
attachments, even though it might cause me more problems in the future.