Thanks everyone for your input. I will try sending out gzipped files for a while and see how it goes. Will typical e-mail clients on non-OSS platforms know how to invoke the appropriate decompressor, assuming that is it installed and the MIME type of the attached file is appropriately set? I don't want to field complaints that "the file you sent doesn't do expeted things when I doubleclick it". (Vaguely related complaint: it appears that windows e-mail clients often don't care about MIME, judging from the number of times I have received PDFs and other very standard types of files with their MIME type as 'application/octet-stream'. It would be cool if Mutt would try harder to identify such files, since 'application/octet-stream' seems to be a reliable indicator that the supplied MIME type is bogus and should be ignored.)
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