From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/70902 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: attachment options? Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 20:08:21 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87tylozs9q.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1284746916 27339 80.91.229.12 (17 Sep 2010 18:08:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 18:08:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org To: Eric Abrahamsen Original-X-From: ding-owner+M19275@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Sep 17 20:08:34 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OwfMN-0004cn-Lw for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 17 Sep 2010 20:08:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1OwfMI-0000tL-2c; Fri, 17 Sep 2010 13:08:26 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1OwfMG-0000t4-Pd for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 17 Sep 2010 13:08:24 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1OwfMF-0006jE-3n for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 17 Sep 2010 13:08:24 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.10]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1OwfME-0003t4-00 for ; Fri, 17 Sep 2010 20:08:22 +0200 Original-Received: from frontend1.mail.m-online.net (unknown [192.168.8.180]) by mail-out.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E176A1C001BC; Fri, 17 Sep 2010 20:08:21 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from igel.home (ppp-88-217-113-134.dynamic.mnet-online.de [88.217.113.134]) by mail.mnet-online.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A9611C00200; Fri, 17 Sep 2010 20:08:21 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by igel.home (Postfix, from userid 501) id 30995CA298; Fri, 17 Sep 2010 20:08:21 +0200 (CEST) X-Yow: This is my WILLIAM BENDIX memorial CORNER where I worship William Bendix like a GOD!! In-Reply-To: <87tylozs9q.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (Eric Abrahamsen's message of "Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:30:25 +0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:70902 Archived-At: Eric Abrahamsen 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. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."