From: Shenghuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu>
Subject: Re: Workaround for quoted printable encoding of attachments
Date: 11 Sep 1999 20:55:25 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2niu5hymma.fsf@tiger.jia.vnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: "Rene H. Larsen"'s message of "11 Sep 1999 14:41:54 +0200"
>>>>> "R" == Rene H Larsen <renehl@post1.tele.dk> writes:
R> If you, like me, have problems with binary attachments in pGnus being
R> encoded as quoted printable instead of in base64, this may help you.
R> Just insert this into your .gnus:
R> (defun mm-qp-or-base64 () 'base64)
R> This will effectively disable pGnus' (apparently broken) heuristics to
R> determine whether a file is binary, and always choose base64
R> encoding. Unfortunately, "text/*" attachments will then also be base64
R> encoded. On the other hand, "message/rfc822" attachments are
R> unaffected.
R> This does not fix the underlying problem, but should merely be
R> regarded as a workaround.
I guess your solution is not appropriate. Why not try the following
code in your .gnus?
(setq mm-content-transfer-encoding-defaults
'(("text/x-patch" 8bit)
("text/.*" qp-or-base64)
("message/rfc822" 8bit)
("application/emacs-lisp" 8bit)
("application/x-patch" 8bit)
(".*" base64)))
--
Shenghuo ZHU
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-09-12 0:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-09-11 12:41 Rene H. Larsen
1999-09-12 0:55 ` Shenghuo ZHU [this message]
1999-09-12 3:14 ` Rene H. Larsen
1999-09-12 14:54 ` Shenghuo ZHU
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