Re: Attachments broken since some time

[Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>]

Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:

>> for some time, running the current Emacs master and the Gnus version
>> coming with it, it seems that all attachments are broken for me.
>> Below is a message from emacs-devel with a png image attachment.  I
>> get a gnus button but only a box is displayed (see screenshot).
>
> I can confirm this. I am using, because of a problem with signed and
> encrypted smime message, GNU emacs master from august.
>
> The strange thing is that text files, such as tex or matlab files work
> fine, images, don't.

Well, in my case it was the result of a configuration I did myself
without actually knowing what the consequences where.  I've set for my
nnimap select methods

(add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods
  '(nnimap "Fastmail"
    (nnimap-address "imap.fastmail.com")
    (nnimap-fetch-partial-articles "\\(text\\|image\\)/")))
     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

which means that Gnus won't download non-text and non-image parts.
However, the buttons will still be there, just the parts will be empty.
Before acting on them, you need to fetch the complete article using `A
C'.

In Emacs master, I enhanced that so that now the buttons read like

  [name --- type (not downloaded, A C to fetch.)]

for those parts.

Bye,
Tassilo