Package: mailutils
Version: 1:3.6-1+b1
Severity: normal

Here's what i ran:

$ mailx --mime --attach=tmp/test.gz [email protected] 
--subject 'bananas 3' [email protected] <<EOF 
this is a test

a test maessage with 3 bananas.
EOF
$

here is the RFC822 message that was generated:

----------------
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="161194241-1568472316=:825"
Subject: bananas 3
To: <[email protected]>
X-Mailer: mail (GNU Mailutils 3.6)
Message-Id: <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2019 10:45:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <[email protected]>

--161194241-1568472316=:825
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Disposition: attachment
Content-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

this is a test

a test maessage with 3 bananas.

--161194241-1568472316=:825
Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="test.gz"
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="tmp/test.gz"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-ID: <[email protected]>

dGVzdCBnemlwIC05Cg==
--161194241-1568472316=:825--
----------------

the mime structure is:

     1  └┬╴multipart/mixed 858 bytes
     2   ├─╴text/plain attachment 48 bytes
     3   └─╴application/octet-stream attachment [tmp/test.gz] 20 bytes

It is inappropriate for part 2 to be marked with Content-Disposition:
attachment.

thanks for your work on mailutils!

        --dkg

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  APT policy: (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 
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Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), 
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages mailutils depends on:
ii  guile-2.2-libs       2.2.4+1-3+b1
ii  libc6                2.28-10
ii  libfribidi0          1.0.5-3.1
ii  libgc1c2             1:7.6.4-0.4
ii  libgnutls30          3.6.9-4
ii  libgsasl7            1.8.1-1
ii  libkyotocabinet16v5  1.2.76-4.2+b1
ii  libldap-2.4-2        2.4.48+dfsg-1
ii  libmailutils6        1:3.6-1+b1
ii  libncurses6          6.1+20190803-1
ii  libpam0g             1.3.1-5
ii  libpython2.7         2.7.16-4
ii  libreadline8         8.0-3
ii  libtinfo6            6.1+20190803-1
ii  libwrap0             7.6.q-28
ii  mailutils-common     1:3.6-1

Versions of packages mailutils recommends:
ii  postfix [mail-transport-agent]  3.4.5-1+b1

Versions of packages mailutils suggests:
pn  mailutils-doc  <none>
pn  mailutils-mh   <none>

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