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ShengHuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu> writes:

> > (("text/x-patch" 8bit) ("text/.*" qp-or-base64)
> >  ("message/rfc822" 8bit) ("application/emacs-lisp" 8bit)
> >  ("application/x-patch" 8bit) (".*" base64))
> >=20
> >=20
> > But Gnus still sends out a 7bit application/rtf attachment in
> > plaintext.  How do I achieve the desired effect?
>=20
> I suspect that there is an old base64.el in your load path. Check
> function base64-encode-region. If there are only two arguments, that's
> it.

`base64-encode-region' is an interactive Lisp function
  -- loaded from "base64"
(base64-encode-region START END &optional NO-LINE-BREAK)


Note that base64 actually works if it really needs to (that is,
sending a binary file as an attachment);  what I want is to use base64
even if it does not seem necessary.


Andras