[Email-SIG] Generating zipped or gzipped attachment with emailpackage?

[Mark Sapiro]

R. David Murray wrote:

>On Thu, 21 May 2009 at 13:08, skip at pobox.com wrote:
>> Alas, then I lose the notion that the file is actually text/csv.  For
>> example, how would Outlook or Thunderbird know to open such a file in Excel
>> or OpenOffice Calc?
>
>By using whatever heuristics it uses for such a file on disk (including
>the filename extension), I would imagine.  Suboptimal, but lacking
>a compression standard for email-MIME, it is probably the best you can do.


Ideally, one would be able to specify a parameter on the Content-Type;
header along the lines of

Content-Type: text/csv; charset="utf-8"; compression="gzip"

The MIME standards allow for such parameter extensions, but since I
just made that one up, no MUA is going to recognize it :(

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