From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/81098 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Didier Verna Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: [Q] winmail.dat Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:58:39 +0100 Organization: The Gnus Project Message-ID: References: <871uqynp55.fsf@gmx.ch> <87d3aixd6p.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> <87mx9l4969.fsf@pinto.chemeng.ucl.ac.uk> <871uql6off.fsf@gnus.org> <87bopkauwz.fsf@pinto.chemeng.ucl.ac.uk> <87fwev6avd.fsf@gnus.org> <87bopj6al7.fsf@gnus.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1328086779 20302 80.91.229.3 (1 Feb 2012 08:59:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 08:59:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: ding-owner+M29379@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Feb 01 09:59:38 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RsW2T-0004Hi-1c for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:59:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1RsW1y-0002RV-MK; Wed, 01 Feb 2012 02:59:06 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1RsW1x-0002RL-F7 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 01 Feb 2012 02:59:05 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1RsW1t-0003qW-9S for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 01 Feb 2012 02:59:05 -0600 Original-Received: from sao-paulo.lrde.epita.fr ([163.5.55.1] helo=kualalumpur.lrde.epita.fr) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RsW1p-000863-MQ; Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:58:57 +0100 Original-Received: from uzeb.lrde.epita.fr ([192.168.101.53] helo=uzeb) by kualalumpur.lrde.epita.fr with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1RsW1k-0000A4-2x; Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:58:52 +0100 Original-Received: by uzeb (Postfix, from userid 17030) id 73562C034B; Wed, 1 Feb 2012 09:58:39 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <87bopj6al7.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:33:24 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) XEmacs/21.5-b31 (linux) Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAGFBMVEXt6+iCMgV3HgC+iV5V BwD4+/X19PGXTx6nGyt6AAACSUlEQVQ4jbWSwavbMAzGDSG52zX4bD1Dr+1cpnNcQa7v0uwaGM35 Oe7Qvz/ZfSmPMdhpCgmxfvk+KbKVUmp9xf32CvVPMNf7b6AuvuT/C/ijqQqGlhvm9f5+U1U2S/59 B+uqTssq+aFazrvitih1oWv/fhvmz0o7WH8QCRGPtV++1rhdjs7S93lZ5vu9TmAH84VdpuuwdN2p r+QTzGpkBjv1C+YSByn/AlN5AEwnPOuCp2Go7arhvq5LIuO1RQ7ObW+xVy16AUSZN6Lpm2NBh6Ep +lUt27i5B02M7Iwz3jXFfVAdsvWWJouoQwZDzyEKYA4CaGQdxgzkdxB1TpqSfcuGvAYaK5BBdagf JMuQtfHG0FMhIDKLDznK2TsWAK0rEXyg5I9Zy8Um59HUntQQUeFENjkxYleYdQWr+lmK6q50IQYP hQ0A52bVlQ/pN9dxlO1Q7ORLA4rxl+rIHjKwz648JmaWyn1XzmrpKEg7mVwUKResAoylO6G37ij2 rpSIUl/VnyuHy5g0O8+UzdEVexCrWhpDsmFy2nEdvYzzKGBRyNlLh95tJpUz+ogs+6+iwsLlnDw/ GI4xRoxn0s7UNHNEY/gxycCLZ97GuCVVf18DBICcaEKmgzQZo1V1rIH2ABMKFuRIAjaQLaCUKoZA 2hDiVgFDDRJGSTbbmxSMb0BX4CskgASy1KGBrCVMBcnXV4EATSHvOiTjmyc0gwaESL+jHNGWk6eB ZtU05vXxF4UQzkII9vD6CWr5p4ucBhGL6QtUq2aXfAO/AY4JDnwGDSk1AAAAAElFTkSuQmCC X-Face: bbraK^(X<.h)xOzX0A/= esVO\U{Zk#~?VMmtm2{*b8)K Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAGFBMVEWdYzDOqYT5+fjv7uro 5uNPBQCHQg9uIwCo+mdoAAACZklEQVQ4jW2SPW/jMAyGKVwkrTb6NdfOHzjHuLmNhd7qAKW1KkBN rQpwkv7+0YqTtkipwQAfvXxJytCs0fFpml2zW6I3Bi5gybSmaW8BC7rWDDegZc2wa7pbBecHTtwC rr41ww8ebdcrd9//pKgQ0v47aLu2bV4dBP1ru5LPrvonUYP6138FLY/dvQBANY8lv7uU6prdswU9 VRjYpP/i0WzfRtBjNTPoexZ8AhDVU6jA3w3bJX8xb19BqUTkHjdfAc9WO0lyDFXFoC2gG5r9bv9X eDnG6eDkh2mHYj40w3boZwUyzRgAj2bXFXPDT9CwA3jSXgK6vmzEwGnfmqoSJ5W0z+jADcYUYDf1 E/IIRCrOVgl/b85d5WRtgsfstMuPogyyAkuThYqOEscXAU7/GkwBMakc3RjdHN+fj8r5D3MGNroc k0NwaH6ftLTvqyLF5HESWcqDGdQk86E0ZcBlojhBck8bs3+w0V9AiGEm7+cQuM03tFcF3+XF+pl3 8Wr+YAr1CnwK4mHUFO848TLRx7B25fShltZBgtrUNdHRrEDpA2gvAFVSOGZ3qlcAKS1DBv5HVCZP ke7XObKrLGlXKxACFK9ys7jsIJGordPKKdYcK0V+c1ZgFqBPIEcNOohaOuWgRI4C5OkoD0rIQ82A RQUgv5r3KY4K5lCDnKA6KwgRJ27HES03Z8QgVgWinUBb8jEoxQCzzytg5G3OOBZF5uAGco4M4hmT X/LnopGvZn6ra+R07jfaRD75IrERLebSLXEpBlwfo11OKUS8GgaUWcHVFrOIBSyMF7qUyte4Ajbj b4z4HfwH9aIWy0cvyXYAAAAASUVORK5CYII= X-Face: J+qWX^n"9*:A$IVncZfQ1)U`wy"UT|VM<%Br@Gq6m%X^^kvMAOuSxb?b~}!ZA\-:Yg>ZDfD CM"lir-:Rk"r\*-/{/m3H@\YPQqR*@tw[W$aNIF?$j/G2%?VhDT$/\cMwx:^x\UW,iR4Vr6iO#0Gl) PDS!*=^e@(gQ Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:81098 Archived-At: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote: > Lars Ingebrigtsen writes: > >> So it seems like a possible way to approach this would be to create a >> general "parse archives as MIME parts" functionality to Gnus. That is, >> when given a tar file, or a winmail.dat file, then create a separate >> MIME part for each file in the archive. Sounds good, although maybe with different default behaviors according to archive types. What I mean is that there's a difference between: - you attach a PDF but the guy gets a winmail.dat archive, and - you attach a tar.gz and the guy gets... a tar.gz. So while it makes perfect sense to automatically decipher winmail.dat attachments (because they were never intentional), I'm not sure I will ever want to see the contents of a tar file displayed inline in my article buffer. However, a keystroke for automatically decompressing and extracting somewhere in the file system would be neat :-) -- Resistance is futile. You will be jazzimilated. Scientific site: http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~didier Music (Jazz) site: http://www.didierverna.com