From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/34876 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ShengHuo ZHU Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: funny multipart/related not displaying correctly Date: 21 Feb 2001 01:29:37 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <2nu25oblbi.fsf@tiger.jia.vnet> References: <87r90sr33l.fsf@julian.uwo.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035170717 32552 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 03:25:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:25:17 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from karazm.math.uh.edu (karazm.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.1]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3173ED049E for ; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 01:30:09 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by karazm.math.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAC06818; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 00:29:34 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 21 Feb 2001 00:28:53 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@66-209.196.61.interliant.com [209.196.61.66] (may be forged)) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA24450 for ; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 00:28:43 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from zsh.yi.org (roc-24-93-30-91.rochester.rr.com [24.93.30.91]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABE60D049E for ; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 01:29:09 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (from zsh@localhost) by zsh.yi.org (8.11.0/8.10.0) id f1L6TbH26264; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 01:29:37 -0500 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Attribution: ZSH X-Face: 'IF:e51ib'Qbl^(}l^&4-J`'P!@[4~O|&k#:@Gld#b/]oMq&`&FVY._3+b`mzp~Jeve~/#/ ERD!OTe<86UhyN=l`mrPY)M7_}`Ktt\K+58Z!hu7>qU,i.N7TotU[FYE(f1;}`g2xj!u*l`^&=Q!g{ *q|ddto|nkt"$r,K$[)"|6,elPH= GJ6Q In-Reply-To: <87r90sr33l.fsf@julian.uwo.ca> (Dan Christensen's message of "21 Feb 2001 00:56:30 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090001 (Oort Gnus v0.01) Emacs/21.0.99 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Original-Lines: 31 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:34876 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:34876 Dan Christensen writes: > The message attached below isn't displayed well by Gnus. I suspect > that it is incorrect MIME. Unfortunately, I'm getting a lot of > messages like this from a certain source who can't change the software > which generates them. So I'm wondering: are they in fact incorrect > MIME, and is there a way to get Gnus to detect this and display them > properly automatically? > > The messages consist of a multipart/related with > type="multipart/alternative" and two sub-parts. The first subpart > (part 1) is a multipart/alternative (which is correct) and the second > (part 2) is an image (replaced below by a text/plain part). The > enclosing multipart/related shouldn't be an alternative; I want to see > one of the first two parts and the last part. If I hit `K m', Gnus > somehow can tell this is what I want and fixes the message. I'd like > this to happen automatically. > By the way, before being fixed, `K b' only shows one button, which > corresponds to part 1, the alternative. But I never see part 2. > `C-u K b' fixes this, but shouldn't I see an alternative to part 1 > with `K b'? > > `C-d' on the message shows the correct heirarchy of parts. gnus-mime-display-multipart-as-mixed is the variable, but maybe you don't want multipart/alternative displayed as mixed. So, I just added gnus-mime-display-multipart-related-as-mixed and gnus-mime-display-multipart-alternative-as-mixed. ShengHuo