From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: attachment options?
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 20:08:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2hbhojl9m.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tylozs9q.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (Eric Abrahamsen's message of "Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:30:25 +0800")
Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
> I am attaching the file to the gnus message with all the defaults:
> Content type is application/msword and disposition is attachment. As far
> as I know those are the correct settings for a plain vanilla file
> attachment. Amazon's error message doesn't say anything beyond "no
> file", does anyone know of any alternate attachment methods I could use,
> or other settings to tweak, to make these attachments more attachment-y?
Do you put anything besides the attachment into the mail? If not then
gnus generates a single-part message which contains the attachment
contents as the whole body. Probably Amazon's parser is too lame to
handle that.
Andreas.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-17 18:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-17 8:30 Eric Abrahamsen
2010-09-17 9:29 ` Steinar Bang
2010-09-19 3:41 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2010-09-19 4:13 ` Dave Goldberg
2010-09-19 6:50 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2010-09-19 11:50 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-19 14:08 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2010-09-21 2:14 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2010-09-17 10:44 ` Frank Schmitt
2010-09-17 18:08 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
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