Re: MIME parts not saved

[John Williams <john.williams@otago.ac.nz>]

Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:

> The solution I took then was to remove xdg-open from the mailcap
> database, as described in the article.  You may want to add the
> entries to the database[1] for the pairs of the content-types and
> the viewers if Fedora doesn't provide them in the system mailcap
> database.  To know what entries there are, do
> `M-x load-library RET mailcap RET' and
> `C-h v mailcap-mime-data RET'.
>
> [1] An easy way is to have the ~/.mailcap file with the entries
>     like the following:
>
> application/pdf; /usr/bin/acroread %s
> application/msword; /usr/bin/ooffice %s
>
>     Note that whenever you edited the file you have to do
>     `M-x mailcap-parse-mailcaps RET', or restart Emacs and Gnus.
That works great, thank you so much!  But if this is a common problem,
perhaps it should be noted in the Gnus manual, in the section about
dealing with MIME parts?

>> So then I try to save the part locally, am prompted for a location and
>> save the file.  Great!  The file is created. Except that when I go to
>> open it, I find that it is empty, i.e. 0 bytes.
>
> I don't know.  Is it always empty for any attachment?
I forgot that I had set nnimap to only download non-MIME parts from the
server. As soon as Lars asked if there was anything in the attachment, I
remembered. I'm sorry to have bothered you and Lars with this silly
question.

Thanks for your help,

John