Re: multipart/alternative mail in doc group (bug?)

[Stephen Berman <steve@ims.uni-stuttgart.de>]

On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 05:03:56 +0200 Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com> wrote:

> Stephen Berman <steve@ims.uni-stuttgart.de> writes:
>
>> When I have several multipart/alternative mails saved in a Unix mail
>> file, make a doc group out of it with G f and then press <space>
>> [...]  This only happens if the first mail in the file is
>> multipart/alternative; if the first mail is not multipart but
>> e.g. just text/plain and all the following mails are
>> multipart/alternative, Gnus displays all entries correctly in the
>> summary buffer.
>
> Does it work if you do `C-u G f' and specify mbox as the type?

Yes it does; thanks!  I suppose the problem was that by not specifying
the type, Gnus guessed `mime-parts'?  Maybe I should have figured this
out, or just tried using the prefix argument, but it just didn't occur
to me that this was related to the problem.  I think it would be
helpful to note this possibility in the manual and perhaps also in the
docstring; maybe something like this: "If you want to create a doc
group of a specific type and the content-type of the mail could lead
Gnus to guess the wrong type (e.g., if you want to create an mbox
group but the (first) mail in the file has content-type
multipart/alternative), then be sure to use `C-u G f' to create the
group."

I still don't understand why Gnus only displayed the first of the
multipart messages; is this expected?

--Steve Berman