Re: Whee!

[Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:

> I just received an uuencoded mail for the first time since installing
> Zhu's mm-uu, and I got those neat buttons for the uuencoded body.

It has bugs, though.  If the message is:

<text 1>
<uuencode>
<text 2>

then <text 1> begins with a spurious newline, and <text 2> is not
shown at all.

> And then I could treat the uuencoded parts just as if they were MIME
> parts.  *Way* neat!

Agreed.

> Anyway, this led me to thinking about message/partial and series of
> uuencoded articles.  How should these be treated?  It would be nice
> if message/partial and uuencoded series were also handled in similar
> manners, but what should Gnus do?  Should Gnus remove the "other"
> parts of a message/partial from the summary buffer, or, uhm.  Or
> what?

I think Gnus should insert a "virtual" article that merges them all.
Creation of the virtual article should probably be bound to a command
(I'm not sure if it's a good idea to make it automatic.)  Then you
could also safely remove them from the summary.  Or even limit them
out, so that `/ w' would restore them...

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Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
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