From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/51387 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jmarant@nerim.net (=?iso-8859-15?q?J=E9r=F4me?= Marant) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Gnus way of splitting attachments Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 20:58:52 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <871y06mdg3.fsf@marant.org> References: <87he9236lx.fsf@marant.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1050260302 30332 80.91.224.249 (13 Apr 2003 18:58:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 18:58:22 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Sun Apr 13 20:58:21 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 194mgG-0007t6-00 for ; Sun, 13 Apr 2003 20:58:20 +0200 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 194mgY-0000vb-00; Sun, 13 Apr 2003 13:58:38 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 13 Apr 2003 13:59:44 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (sclp3.sclp.com [64.157.176.121]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA19805 for ; Sun, 13 Apr 2003 13:59:32 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 96961 invoked by alias); 13 Apr 2003 18:58:21 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 96956 invoked from network); 13 Apr 2003 18:58:21 -0000 Original-Received: from smtp-100-sunday.noc.nerim.net (HELO mallaury.noc.nerim.net) (62.4.17.100) by gnus.org with SMTP; 13 Apr 2003 18:58:21 -0000 Original-Received: from chinon (jmarant.net1.nerim.net [62.212.105.6]) by mallaury.noc.nerim.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F0DD62D06 for ; Sun, 13 Apr 2003 20:58:17 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by chinon (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B142380A5C0; Sun, 13 Apr 2003 20:58:52 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org, jmarant@nerim.net In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sun, 13 Apr 2003 15:33:01 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090017 (Oort Gnus v0.17) Emacs/21.2 (gnu/linux) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:51387 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:51387 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > The following message is a courtesy copy of an article > that has been posted to gnus.ding as well. > > jmarant@nerim.net (J=E9r=F4me Marant) writes: > >> Does the way Gnus splits attachments belong to a standard? > > Gnus doesn't split attachments, so I'm not quite sure what you > mean... (Unless you mean message/partial.) I think I mean message/partial. When the size of a given attachment exceeds a given limit, Gnus proposes to split the attachment (or rather the message). >> Currently, when Gnus splits attachments, the first part >> and the last part contain a MIME boundary, and parts >> that are in between are described as "partial" and >> probably encoded in base64 or something. > > Could you give an example? Yes, sure. I sent to myself a debian package which is about 2.5 Megs. Gnus split it into 3 parts. Part 1/3:=20 ... User-Agent: Gnus/5.090017 (Oort Gnus v0.17) Emacs/21.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=3D"=3D-=3D-=3D" --=3D-=3D-=3D Content-Type: application/x-debian-package Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=3Dgnus_5.9.0016-3_all.deb Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 ITxhcmNoPgpkZWJpYW4tYmluYXJ5ICAgMTA0ODI4MDgyMCAgMCAgICAgMCAgICAgMTAwNjQ0ICA0 ICAgICAgICAgYAoyLjAKY29udHJvbC50YXIuZ3ogIDEwNDgyODA4MjAgIDAgICAgIDAgICAgIDEw ... Part 2/3: User-Agent: Gnus/5.090017 (Oort Gnus v0.17) Emacs/21.2 (gnu/linux) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: message/partial; id=3D"<87u1d21piz.fsf@marant.org>"; number= =3D2; total=3D3 X-Gnus-Mail-Source: directory:~/Mail/incoming/ Message-ID: <87r8861piz.fsf@marant.org> Lines: 12988 Xref: chinon perso:662 BOdIUKDjMKSStdJ0dlNfgcC2SMPw6v/5aHr4+dG0W7kDlZTcGT4JQOCDRyM1ClDhNy3CfLLMzcz0 zt7s4Vhnh5/PE6NMVKi6eevz6AQkOklO5eEl7rN+iaaMxQb2L6tRVVCdOd5CAs/WJepxl+o3R1+a ... Part 3/3: ... User-Agent: Gnus/5.090017 (Oort Gnus v0.17) Emacs/21.2 (gnu/linux) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: message/partial; id=3D"<87u1d21piz.fsf@marant.org>"; number= =3D3; total=3D3 X-Gnus-Mail-Source: directory:~/Mail/incoming/ Message-ID: <87ptnq1piz.fsf@marant.org> Lines: 7973 Xref: chinon perso:661 EuY7s4FRkR5SgztBu0XeiDrQNSdJ2qvyt8NG83qudA0isrdWTQeocnyVpaj3n6oOot4LhJgDru5+ B/fZ7CbEzOAq3TpvVJWbyc2Q2NtYO7bt/ksixsTdWgNE/n+kP1deIsAH+R5tmwGLquopxEAMd85R ... 7+5397v73f3ufne/u9/d7+5397v73f3ufne/u9/d7+5397v73f3ufne/u9/d7+5397v73f3ufne/ u9/d7+5397v73f3ufne/ud//D9A98VIAEG0A --=3D-=3D-=3D Content-Type: text/plain; charset=3Diso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ... Thanks. --=20 J=E9r=F4me Marant http://marant.org