Re: Gnus doesn't display all parts of a multipart message

[ShengHuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu>]

Hannu Koivisto <azure@iki.fi> writes:

> Greetings,
> 
> I got a weird mail from a colleague who uses Outlook.  To me it
> seems to be a multipart message where the first part is also a
> multipart message, which consists of two alternative parts (plain
> text and HTML).  The rest of the top-level parts are images.  The
> top-level multipart message, as far as I can see, is not
> multipart/alternative, but multipart/related, or at least that's
> what I think it should be.  Not that I really know what
> multipart/related means, but I can guess :)  In any case, Gnus
> displays only the other alternative (text message) from the first
> part but not the other top-level parts (images) so I can't
> save them.
> 
> The mail (stored from a buffer gotten with ``C-u g'') is available
> at <http://www.iki.fi/azure/var/bugreports/mimekala.txt>.  I have
> edited all the content away -- I hope I didn't fuck up anything
> relevant while doing that (I left some content to all parts).
> 
> Perhaps you can tell if there is something wrong with the mail
> (i.e. Outlook is faulty) or that it is ok and those image-parts
> should be displayed (i.e. Gnus is faulty).

Gnus is not faulty but not fully implemented.

(setq gnus-mime-display-multipart-related-as-mixed t) works around the
problem.

ShengHuo