[plug] MIME Types by file contents

[Bernd Felsche]

On Monday 05 July 2004 01:57, you wrote:
> I've almost finished the Python MIME mailer.
>
> One problem I encountered was with the known MIME types having
> dubious mappings to filename extensions. The code works around that
> by using it's own "definitive" map of MIME type to extension.
>
> The other problem that I've encountered and not yet resolved is with
> the Python email module not liking news articles in particular.

I've narrowed this down to what could be a bug in the Message module
os Python 2.2's email package; either the __str__(), as_string() or
set_payload() methods.

Inserting a blank line at the start of the problematic files, which
are saved Usenet articles, works around the problem.

Any suggestions, other than automagically inserting the blank line
for text/news type files?

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