Re: Prolem with attachments.

[Karl Kleinpaste <karl@charcoal.com>]

Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> writes:
> But why  should it send it  in parts ?

To avoid problems with excessive message size.

> Is the real question "Should I send the message in a readable format?" 

No.  The real question is, "Will the destination mailer transport, or
any intermediate mail transport, refuse to ship this message in a
single block due to excessive size?"

> None  of Gnus, Yahoo  mail, and  mutt seem  to be  able to  read these
> multipart messages, so ...

Gnus should certainly be able to.  As you said, you get a button:
	[1. message/partial]...
If you hit `b', Gnus should shovel the partial content to somewhere
under /tmp/your-login-name, and give you a message about "1 of N parts
processed."  When you do this with the 2nd through Nth parts, Gnus
will notice that the partials are now complete, and offer to do
something sensible with it based on the content type.

As for Yahoo mail, well, that's a disastrous excuse for a web-based
mail interface.  And mutt, it's cute and useful but in some ways it's
really not up to par.

The deeper question you need to be asking is, "Is there any mail
transport these days that is so backward as to be unable to handle a
megabyte or two in attachment content?" and the answer is probably
"No."  So ultimately, what you *really* want is

(setq message-send-mail-partially-limit nil)