* outbound MIME attachments broken in v0.80?
@ 1999-03-05 20:16 Alfred J Correira
1999-03-10 0:14 ` Alfred J Correira
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From: Alfred J Correira @ 1999-03-05 20:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
NTEmacs 20.3.1 with pgnus v0.80.
I downloaded and upgraded to v0.80 yesterday and thought it was working just
fine until this morning when I tried to attach (^c-^a) my first Word doc. When
I did that, I got the following during encoding:
Fri Mar 05 10:51:29 1999: Error while decoding: (args-out-of-range ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+/ 671)
Fri Mar 05 10:51:29 1999: Encoding base64...
Fri Mar 05 10:51:29 1999: Sending...
(from my *Messages* buffer)
(I haven't figured out yet why I'm getting a decoding message during encoding.)
I can send the message after the error displays, but the resulting attachment
decodes to a much smaller file that is garbage (as near as I can tell).
I also get the error attaching BMP files and pretty much anything non-textual.
I do not get this error attaching text or html files and I can decode them just
fine.
In all cases I can successfully decode binary attachments sent to me from, for
example, Outlook.
I asked Jack Vinson to try this as well -- he doesn't get the above message but
he also got garbage when he tried to decode the attachment out of his GCC
folder (Word locked up on him -- it simply refused to display anything to me).
Does this ring any bells? Is this working for anyone on the list using v0.80
with NTEmacs? Since no-one else has complained about this, I'm assuming that
this is specific to Windows (I suspect that we're a sad minority of pgnus users
:-)
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* Re: outbound MIME attachments broken in v0.80?
1999-03-05 20:16 outbound MIME attachments broken in v0.80? Alfred J Correira
@ 1999-03-10 0:14 ` Alfred J Correira
1999-03-14 15:48 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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From: Alfred J Correira @ 1999-03-10 0:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
I didn't have a chance to pick this up again until just a little while ago. I
reviewed the diffs between v0.79 (where this worked) and v0.80 (where it
doesn't). The offending change is in mml.el in the function
mml-generate-mime-1.
v0.79
(setq encoding (mm-body-encoding charset))
(setq coded (buffer-string)))
(mm-with-unibyte-buffer
(cond
((cdr (assq 'buffer cont))
v0.80
(setq encoding (mm-body-encoding charset))
(setq coded (buffer-string)))
(with-temp-buffer
(cond
((cdr (assq 'buffer cont))
Bottom line: under NTEmacs (i.e. Windows) mm-with-unibyte-buffer Good,
with-temp-buffer Bad, at least wrt mm-encode-buffer doing its thing correctly.
I don't know what the right long-term solution is, but reverting to
mm-with-unibyte-buffer works for me ...
>> "AJC" == Alfred J Correira <alfred@GlobeSet.Com> writes:
AJC> NTEmacs 20.3.1 with pgnus v0.80.
AJC> I downloaded and upgraded to v0.80 yesterday and thought it was working
AJC> just fine until this morning when I tried to attach (^c-^a) my first
AJC> Word doc. When I did that, I got the following during encoding:
AJC> Fri Mar 05 10:51:29 1999: Error while decoding: (args-out-of-range ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+/ 671)
AJC> Fri Mar 05 10:51:29 1999: Encoding base64...
AJC> Fri Mar 05 10:51:29 1999: Sending...
AJC> (from my *Messages* buffer)
AJC> (I haven't figured out yet why I'm getting a decoding message during
AJC> encoding.)
AJC> I can send the message after the error displays, but the resulting
AJC> attachment decodes to a much smaller file that is garbage (as near as I
AJC> can tell).
AJC> I also get the error attaching BMP files and pretty much anything
AJC> non-textual. I do not get this error attaching text or html files and I
AJC> can decode them just fine.
AJC> In all cases I can successfully decode binary attachments sent to me
AJC> from, for example, Outlook.
AJC> I asked Jack Vinson to try this as well -- he doesn't get the above
AJC> message but he also got garbage when he tried to decode the attachment
AJC> out of his GCC folder (Word locked up on him -- it simply refused to
AJC> display anything to me).
AJC> Does this ring any bells? Is this working for anyone on the list using
AJC> v0.80 with NTEmacs? Since no-one else has complained about this, I'm
AJC> assuming that this is specific to Windows (I suspect that we're a sad
AJC> minority of pgnus users :-)
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