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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Tomas Nordin <tomasn@posteo.net>, Mark Walters <markwalters1009@gmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] emacs: show: stop display of application/* parts
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Tomas Nordin <tomasn@posteo.net> writes:

> Mark Walters <markwalters1009@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Gnus seems to display application/zip and application/tar by
>> default. This doesn't seem desirable so we override it.
>>
>> We only override if the user has not customized
>> mm-inline-override-types themselves.
>
> But what will we do if the user has not customized it because she
> /wants/ to display all possible things inline. I have not seen that this
> patch is merged into master, and probably, when I have learned about
> this variable, I think maybe it's better not to do it in the notmuch
> code.

The problem is that the gnus default is somehow unsafe, and causes bad
behaviour for people receiving large attachments.

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