>> "Nick" == Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> writes:

   > Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:

   > Eric Fraga has been prolific in providing solutions to these problems
   > today. In addition to the client side solution ("Use v instead of t")
   > which solves the problem on the recipient's side, he provided another
   > solution (which I have used in the past, but I forgot all about it until
   > I saw Eric's reply to your question in the gnus mailing list) that
   > solves the problem on the sender's side: let gnus-dired-attach default
   > to whatever it bloody well pleases - the attachment cookie it inserts in
   > the mail you are composing is just text (until you hit C-c C-c and then
   > it becomes a "real" attachment), so if the type is not to your liking,
   > you can go ahead and edit it at will (I've stripped out parts of the
   > cookie, so it won't be mistaken as a real attachment - I'm not sure
   > how to quote it so that it won't be recognized):

   > ... type="application/octet-stream" filename="~/Desktop/foo"
   > disposition=attachment description=Hunoz>

   > to

   > ... type="text/plain" filename="~/Desktop/foo"
   > disposition=attachment description=Hunoz>
yes I have seen his answer, problem with this approach: you have to know
by heart which is hte correct type. 

I never can remember whether it is text/plain or plain/text

 mml-attach-file gives you a list of options.

Uwe Brauer