* Is this a bug in gnus or in the message?
@ 2000-02-08 23:29 Daniel Pittman
2000-02-09 10:48 ` Kai Großjohann
2000-02-09 10:52 ` Toby Speight
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From: Daniel Pittman @ 2000-02-08 23:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Attached are the (partial) headers of a message that I saw on the XEmacs
beta mailing list. I think that this message does not have enough MIME
headers to actually work which is why I saw it as text, not as several
parts.
I have included all the headers except the delivered-to ones. I think
this is enough for someone who understands MIME to comment. I can
forward the message if that's useful...
Even if this is so, might it be nice to recognize the MIME message
anyway? This /is/ generated with an (older) Gnus, after all. ;)
Daniel
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To: xemacs-beta@xemacs.org
Subject: Strange Gutters Behaviour
Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 1.5)
boundary="Multipart_Tue_Feb__8_16:21:10_2000-1"
From: npak@kazbek.ispras.ru (Nick V. Pakoulin)
X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.45/XEmacs 21.2 - "Hermes"
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Date: 08 Feb 2000 20:09:55 +0300
X-Sent: 6 hours, 14 minutes, 29 seconds ago
X-Gnus-Mail-Source: file:/home/daniel/Mailbox
Message-ID: <scmvh3zwrh8.fsf@hookah.kazbek.ispras.ru>
Sender: owner-xemacs-beta@xemacs.org
Precedence: bulk
X-Mailing-List: <xemacs-beta@xemacs.org>
Lines: 715
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* Re: Is this a bug in gnus or in the message?
2000-02-08 23:29 Is this a bug in gnus or in the message? Daniel Pittman
@ 2000-02-09 10:48 ` Kai Großjohann
2000-02-09 10:52 ` Toby Speight
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From: Kai Großjohann @ 2000-02-09 10:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
"Daniel Pittman" <daniel@danann.net> writes:
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Well, if the message explicitly says it's text/plain, that's what Gnus
is going to think.
After all, it is conceivable (if improbable) that the user really
wanted to transmit the content as text/plain.
kai
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* Re: Is this a bug in gnus or in the message?
2000-02-08 23:29 Is this a bug in gnus or in the message? Daniel Pittman
2000-02-09 10:48 ` Kai Großjohann
@ 2000-02-09 10:52 ` Toby Speight
1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Toby Speight @ 2000-02-09 10:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
Daniel> Daniel Pittman <URL:mailto:daniel@danann.net>
0> In article <87k8kfff3o.fsf@inanna.osa.com.au>, Daniel wrote:
Daniel> Attached are the (partial) headers of a message that I saw on
Daniel> the XEmacs beta mailing list. I think that this message does
Daniel> not have enough MIME headers to actually work which is why I
Daniel> saw it as text, not as several parts.
Daniel>
Daniel> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 1.5)
Daniel> boundary="Multipart_Tue_Feb__8_16:21:10_2000-1"
Daniel> X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.45/XEmacs 21.2 - "Hermes"
Daniel> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
It looks like it's been chewed by a list-mangler or something. It's
declared as text/plain, so Gnus is doing the right thing showing it
thus. It looks like a Content-Type line was removed from just after
the Mime-Version line - but not the continuation of it (which is why
the boundary attribute is attached to the Mime-Version.
I don't know if we're reading the Content-Type line, or deciding that
the malformed Mime-Version line means that it's not a MIME message and
defaulting to text/plain; charset=US-ASCII as we should.
Rather than hacking Gnus to correct the article, I suggest you edit it
(with "e" from the Summary buffer) - write a function to do the repair
if you get many such messages.
FWIW, I think other mailreaders will be consistent with Gnus by
default (if not, then they are MIME-broken).
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