From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/43552 Path: quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail From: Karl Kleinpaste Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Prolem with attachments. Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 07:18:31 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: quimby2.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: quimby2.netfonds.no 1014207602 10196 195.204.10.66 (20 Feb 2002 12:20:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby2.netfonds.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 20 Feb 2002 12:20:02 GMT Keywords: message,mail,gnus,transport,question,parts,content Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by quimby2.netfonds.no with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16dVj6-0002di-00; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 13:20:01 +0100 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16dVi1-0005xn-00; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 06:18:53 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 20 Feb 2002 06:18:53 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id GAA21922 for ; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 06:18:41 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 5339 invoked by alias); 20 Feb 2002 12:18:36 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 5334 invoked from network); 20 Feb 2002 12:18:34 -0000 Original-Received: from mesquite.slip.cs.cmu.edu (HELO cinnamon.vanillaknot.com) (128.2.207.11) by gnus.org with SMTP; 20 Feb 2002 12:18:34 -0000 Original-Received: (from karl@localhost) by cinnamon.vanillaknot.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1KCIVK21635; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 07:18:31 -0500 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Face: "8-CgoYhiD_O!#(F%E=..0>QA_#WDy+]_XoAr)L]`-zjAc\d+nsFXq`=v_# =pVh#sP*K~j,0k9N}`E7jX"5+U?4/UIF1EE X-Face: "5(T0tZd{6}pd~YzBG8O/*EW,.]6]@`m^e;fv65W^Y&=d"M\1H}>T~4_.kcDD.O~y3k)a6 hR;Nmi>9|>Nm${2IpM0^RcUEa\jcq?KOP)C&~x51l~zCHTulL^_T|u0I^kB'z@]{`2YjQu In-Reply-To: (Matthieu Moy's message of "Wed, 20 Feb 2002 10:51:53 +0100") Original-Lines: 32 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) XEmacs/21.4 (Common Lisp, i686-pc-linux) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: quimby.gnus.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:43552 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:43552 Matthieu Moy 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)