From: Jake Colman <colman@ppllc.com>
Subject: Re: MIME Message Problem
Date: 23 Sep 1999 14:58:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <76ogetcv5q.fsf@ppllc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Shenghuo ZHU's message of "23 Sep 1999 13:40:35 -0400"
>>>>> "ZSH" == Shenghuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu> writes:
>>>>> "Jake" == Jake Colman <colman@ppllc.com> writes:
Jake> I am forwarding a sample of a type of email that I get fairly
Jake> regularly. When I receive it, it shows up as an
Jake> "application/octet-stream" attachment and is not visible. If I
Jake> press 'C-u g' to see the complete content of the MIME-based
Jake> message, it tells me that it is base64-encoded and all I see is a
Jake> bunch of gibberish (of course). How can I easily see these
Jake> attachments? In almost all cases the attachment is simply a
Jake> forwarded email that the sender wants me to read.
Jake> I'm not sure how this email will get posted to the mailing list
Jake> given that I am forwarding the problem MIME email as a part of this
Jake> message. Hopefully, I am not going to screw anything up.
ZSH> Press 'i' on the "application/octet-stream" button. Though the
ZSH> attached message is not treated as message/rfc822, you can see the
ZSH> raw text.
But why is this necessary? Is this the way it us _supposed_ to work? If
pressing 'i' allows me to see the message, that's great. I'd just like to
understand what is going on?
Thanx!
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-09-23 18:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-09-23 17:40 Jake Colman
1999-09-23 17:40 ` Shenghuo ZHU
1999-09-23 18:58 ` Jake Colman [this message]
1999-09-23 19:12 ` Shenghuo ZHU
1999-09-23 19:14 ` David S. Goldberg
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