Re: Multi-part MIME problems

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

>>>>> "Graham" == Graham Todd <gtodd@yorku.ca> writes:

[...]


Graham> I copied the two offending messages (they're not too personal I hope
Graham> ;-) to:

Graham> ftp://ftp.equilibrio.qc.ca/pub/GnusStuff/

Graham> If anyone wants to read them. If I download a message and do the
Graham> following:

Graham> ~$ echo "From nobody Sat Nov 20 15:27:25 1999" >> Mail/Somefolder
Graham> ~$ cat MIME-message-1 >> Mail/Somefolder

Graham> this puts the message in a mailfolder where I can read it. Reading the
Graham> folder with Pine I see the message and all the attached images and I
Graham> can launch the viewer of my choice without a problem. Pine shows the
Graham> message size as ~ 380k.

Graham> In Gnus the message appears in the folder's Summary Buffer but shows
Graham> the size as 5 megs.  The attachements don't show up in the Article
Graham> buffer when I read the message though. I thought perhaps the message
Graham> was just too big (the actual message file for MIME-message-1 is ~380 k
Graham> but as noted Gnus seems to "expand" its size to 5 megabytes in the
Graham> group buffer). However a smaller message prepared in the same way has
Graham> the same problem.

[...]

By default, Gnus report the number of lines not the number of
characters. What you saw is 5326 lines not 5 megs.

$ wc MIME-message-1
   5360    5669  382907 MIME-message-1

The attachments don't show up because the content-type is
multipart/related, however W3 does not render it well. You can type
`C-d' on the summary, an ephemeral group will show you all the parts
well.


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Shenghuo