> one thing that has bugged me in the past: upas relies on file -m to > determine the type of attachments, but file only reads the first block > of the file, so if you've got a utf-8 file with the first non-ascii character > beyond the 8192nd byte, you get corrupted mail. > > IMHO for the -m option, file should probably read the whole file, > but there are probably good reasons for not doing so.
by upas, i believe you mean marshal and ned. another option these days might be to default to utf-8 and not us-ascii. are there common mailers that can't handle ascii when sent as utf-8? i can't think of any off the top of my head. - erik
