Re: Bug in deleting attachments

[Stephen Berman <Stephen.Berman@gmx.net>]

On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 20:52:45 +0900 Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> wrote:

>>>>>> In <m3n06puiey.fsf@feldmann.germanistik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
>>>>>>	Stephen Berman <Stephen.Berman@gmx.net> wrote:
[...]
>> With Gnus 5.10.6, I also couldn't deleted the attachment of the
>> complicated email, but got the "This function is not implemented"
>> error message.
>
> Ah, I see.  I revived former mm-multiple-handles function as
> mm-complicated-handles.  You probably won't be satisfied, though.
> We need to improve MML seriously...

Yes, that would be good -- if it's possible.  Earlier in this thread
the following exchange was cited:

>|> Is it possible to strip a part that's inside a forwarded messsage
>|> (Content-Type: message/rfc822)? I'd like to strip the
>|> `application/msword' part from the following message (I get
>|> `gnus-mime-save-part-and-strip: This function is not implemented'):
>| 
>| I disabled this feature on messages with complicated MIME structures
>| because of some difficulties, such as locating the part, PGP or S/MIME
>| stuff, etc.  Anyway, you can always edit the message manually if the
>| back end supports it.
> `----

Was the feature disabled because it didn't work at all or not well
enough?  Are the difficulties mentioned fundamental issues with MIME
or rather their proper implementation within Gnus?

--Steve Berman