From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/25222 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jake Colman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: MIME Message Problem Date: 23 Sep 1999 14:58:09 -0400 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <76ogetcv5q.fsf@ppllc.com> References: <76wvthcyrd.fsf@ppllc.com> <5b1zbpedbg.fsf@giga.cs.rochester.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035162648 12876 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:10:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:10:48 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from bart.math.uh.edu (bart.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.48]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA20927 for ; Thu, 23 Sep 1999 14:49:35 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by bart.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAB16772; Thu, 23 Sep 1999 13:48:55 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 23 Sep 1999 13:49:19 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA19235 for ; Thu, 23 Sep 1999 13:49:08 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from reagan.ppllc.com (leonardo.ppllc.com [209.208.206.194]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA20898 for ; Thu, 23 Sep 1999 14:46:16 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from colman@localhost) by reagan.ppllc.com (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.0) id OAA18096; Thu, 23 Sep 1999 14:58:10 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Attribution: Jake X-URL: http://www.ppllc.com In-Reply-To: Shenghuo ZHU's message of "23 Sep 1999 13:40:35 -0400" Original-Lines: 40 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070095 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.95) XEmacs/21.1 (Big Bend) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:25222 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:25222 >>>>> "ZSH" == Shenghuo ZHU writes: >>>>> "Jake" == Jake Colman 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! -- Jake Colman Principia Partners LLC Phone: (201) 946-0300 Harborside Financial Center Fax: (201) 946-0320 902 Plaza II Beeper: (800) 505-2795 Jersey City, NJ 07311 E-mail: colman@ppllc.com E-mail: jcolman@jnc.com web: http://www.ppllc.com "Every time I think I've idiot-proofed something someone comes up with a better idiot"