Odd mime type causes woe

Odd mime type causes woe

[Paul Stevenson]

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I received a message on a mailing list which the sender's software had
encoded in a strange way.  The message looked like this:

[1. application/x-pkcs7-mime; smime.p7m]...

I decided to select 'view as type' from the mouse-3 menu on the above
button, and said 'text/plain'.  Then I could see some trash followed
by the message. (I can't post it because it says  "Multibyte character
in QP encoding region" - because of the 'trash', no doubt).

However, doing this hosed thing a bit in that pressing more or less
any key (q, for example) resulted in:

Wrong type argument: listp, "smime p7m"

All I could do was kill the Article _and_ Group buffers

Here is the backtrace I got when trying to quit the Article buffer:


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Signaling: (wrong-type-argument listp "smime.p7m")
  mm-remove-part((name . "smime.p7m"))
  mm-destroy-part((name . "smime.p7m"))
  mm-destroy-parts(("application/x-pkcs7-mime" (name . "smime.p7m")))
  mm-destroy-parts(((#<killed buffer> ("text/plain" ...) base64 nil ("attachment" ...) nil nil nil) #<killed buffer> ("application/x-pkcs7-mime" (name . "smime.p7m")) base64 nil ("attachment" (filename . "smime.p7m")) nil nil nil))
  gnus-summary-exit()
  call-interactively(gnus-summary-exit)
  gnus-article-read-summary-keys(nil)
  call-interactively(gnus-article-read-summary-keys)

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Re: Odd mime type causes woe

[ShengHuo ZHU]

Paul Stevenson <p.stevenson@surrey.ac.uk> writes:

[...]

> Then I could see some trash followed by the message. (I can't post
> it because it says "Multibyte character in QP encoding region" -
> because of the 'trash', no doubt).

Please check out the latest oGnus, and try it again. If the error
still exists, try upgrading your Emacs (20.3 is too old).

> However, doing this hosed thing a bit in that pressing more or less
> any key (q, for example) resulted in:
> 
> Wrong type argument: listp, "smime p7m"

Fixed in the latest oGnus.

ShengHuo

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