* mime problem
@ 2000-04-05 18:45 lconrad
2000-04-05 19:14 ` Kai Großjohann
2000-04-05 22:39 ` Kai Großjohann
0 siblings, 2 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: lconrad @ 2000-04-05 18:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Here are some of the headers of a mail that both gnus and metamail
failed to grok as the sender intended them to, in the form I received
it. It was apparently an animated gif, before microsoft outlook,
majordomo, and whatever other mail-manglers mangled it got through
with it. I can forward the full message if anyone is interested in
looking at it.
I've had this problem before, and I'm not sure it's a gnus problem.
As maintainer of a majordomo mailing list, I get sent messages which
bounce because they exceed a (fairly small) length limit. I could
send them on, but I like to look at them before I do that, and I never
seem to be able to do that.
When I get the message, I see text that looks to me like mime headers,
but that doesn't seem to buttonize like mime headers in gnus, or to be
decoded into separate parts by "metamail -w". I never see anything
resembling a gif.
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From: wort-approval@world.std.com
To: wort-approval@world.std.com
Subject: BOUNCE wort@world.std.com: Message too long (>40000 chars)
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 10:42:52 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <200004031442.KAA14600@europe.std.com>
>From lconrad@world.std.com Mon Apr 3 10:41:37 2000
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From: "greg roody" <groody@emc.com>
To: <wort@wort.org>
Subject: humorous
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 10:28:42 -0400
Message-ID: <NDBBKDEIHKKAHMOACKKGOECHDGAA.groody@emc.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
boundary="----=_NextPart_000_01A2_01BF9D57.6204A390"
X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0)
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300
Importance: Normal
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
------=_NextPart_000_01A2_01BF9D57.6204A390
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
this may not make it, but it's small enough to try.
6beers~(1).gif
------=_NextPart_000_01A2_01BF9D57.6204A390
Content-Type: image/gif;
name="6beers~(1).gif"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment;
filename="6beers~(1).gif"
(encoded gif deleted)
------=_NextPart_000_01A2_01BF9D57.6204A390--
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--
Laura (mailto:lconrad@world.std.com , http://www.world.std.com/~lconrad/ )
(617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574
233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139
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* Re: mime problem
2000-04-05 18:45 mime problem lconrad
@ 2000-04-05 19:14 ` Kai Großjohann
2000-04-05 19:30 ` Alan Shutko
2000-04-05 22:39 ` Kai Großjohann
1 sibling, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Kai Großjohann @ 2000-04-05 19:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: ding
lconrad@world.std.com writes:
> Content-Type: image/gif;
> name="6beers~(1).gif"
I think Gnus has problems with file names such as this one.
Maybe it should just convert the strange name to a sane one before
using it? And why does it save the file to the name given even if
it's only for display?
kai
--
~/.signature: No such file or directory
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* Re: mime problem
2000-04-05 19:14 ` Kai Großjohann
@ 2000-04-05 19:30 ` Alan Shutko
2000-04-05 22:40 ` Kai Großjohann
0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Alan Shutko @ 2000-04-05 19:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:
> lconrad@world.std.com writes:
>
> > Content-Type: image/gif;
> > name="6beers~(1).gif"
>
> I think Gnus has problems with file names such as this one.
Really? I thought it would be the lack of MIME headers in the
majordomo bounce. The message doesn't look like a MIME message to
Gnus or metamail, so it's not going to extract any of the parts.
--
Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> - In a variety of flavors!
219 days, 20 hours, 5 minutes, 29 seconds till we run away.
I have a theory that it's impossible to prove anything, but I can't prove it.
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* Re: mime problem
2000-04-05 18:45 mime problem lconrad
2000-04-05 19:14 ` Kai Großjohann
@ 2000-04-05 22:39 ` Kai Großjohann
2000-04-06 14:31 ` Laura Conrad
2000-04-20 0:40 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1 sibling, 2 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Kai Großjohann @ 2000-04-05 22:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: ding
lconrad@world.std.com writes:
> When I get the message, I see text that looks to me like mime headers,
> but that doesn't seem to buttonize like mime headers in gnus, or to be
> decoded into separate parts by "metamail -w". I never see anything
> resembling a gif.
Right. Hm. Could a digest type be added to nndoc for this kind of
thing? That would be cool.
Try typing `A D' (or C-d?) on the message and have a look at the
central part. Maybe if nndoc grokked that, too, it would be really
useful?
kai
--
~/.signature: No such file or directory
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* Re: mime problem
2000-04-05 22:39 ` Kai Großjohann
@ 2000-04-06 14:31 ` Laura Conrad
2000-04-20 0:40 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1 sibling, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Laura Conrad @ 2000-04-06 14:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: ding
>>>>> "Kai" == Kai Großjohann <Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE> writes:
Kai> Try typing `A D' (or C-d?) on the message and have a look at the
Kai> central part. Maybe if nndoc grokked that, too, it would be really
Kai> useful?
I get error messages when I do either of those things. Here's the
recent messages; the actual message that appears before the "No
articles..." message also says "Couldn't request group:".
Recent minibuffer messages (most recent first):
No articles in group nnml+private:misc-4838
Opening nndoc server on nndoc:nnml+private:misc-4838-ephemeral...
--
Laura (mailto:lconrad@world.std.com , http://www.world.std.com/~lconrad/ )
(617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574
233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139
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* Re: mime problem
2000-04-05 22:39 ` Kai Großjohann
2000-04-06 14:31 ` Laura Conrad
@ 2000-04-20 0:40 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1 sibling, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen @ 2000-04-20 0:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:
> Try typing `A D' (or C-d?) on the message and have a look at the
> central part. Maybe if nndoc grokked that, too, it would be really
> useful?
nndoc could try to grok non-MIME mail bounces, but it would be
guesswork. Some of those bounces are really difficult to figure out.
It would be nice if there was a function (kinda along the lines mm-uu)
that goes through the bounced message, tries to guess at what's the
bounced message, and then return a list of MIME handles for Gnus to
process. That would be helpful...
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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