From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/54214 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Berman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: multipart/alternative mail in doc group (bug?) Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 12:19:50 +0200 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1065954071 16474 80.91.224.253 (12 Oct 2003 10:21:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 10:21:11 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M2755@lists.math.uh.edu Sun Oct 12 12:21:08 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A8dLX-0002Kp-00 for ; Sun, 12 Oct 2003 12:21:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1A8dKu-0005K0-00; Sun, 12 Oct 2003 05:20:29 -0500 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1A8dKn-0005Ju-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 12 Oct 2003 05:20:21 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CC583A004C for ; Sun, 12 Oct 2003 05:20:20 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A8dKk-0000h5-00 for ; Sun, 12 Oct 2003 12:20:18 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Received: from sea.gmane.org ([80.91.224.252]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A8dKi-0000gx-00 for ; Sun, 12 Oct 2003 12:20:16 +0200 Original-Received: from news by sea.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A8dKi-0004GG-00 for ; Sun, 12 Oct 2003 12:20:16 +0200 Original-Lines: 30 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:v+0WewBVCKtZLzmz8hpvECoFwqo= Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:54214 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:54214 On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 05:03:56 +0200 Jesper Harder wrote: > Stephen Berman 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 >> [...] 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