Hobbit <werehobbit@yandex.ru> writes:

> If you look at mml-generate-mime-1 at mml.el.gz, you'll see this code:
>
> (if (and (not raw)
> 		   (member (car (split-string type "/")) '("text" "message")))
> 	      (progn
>
> When attachment is text file all this black magic after `progn' starts
> to work. Question arises: why not just grab a text, encode it into
> base64 and put into a message?

It's a good question, and I don't know.  I've Cc'd this message to the
Gnus development list -- perhaps someone there knows?

(The issue is that the user inserts the following MIME part: