Re: pgnus-0.31: invoke external MIME stuff

[Matt Armstrong <matta@geoworks.com>]

Shenghuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu> writes:

> >>>>> "KG" == Kai Grossjohann <grossjohann@amaunet.cs.uni-dortmund.de> writes:
> 
> KG> Sometimes, invokation of external programs for a part doesn't work
> KG> right.  Apparently, the program is called for the base64-encoded
> KG> stuff rather than doing the base64-decoding first.  Also, whenever
> KG> I hit RET to save a part into a file, the saved file is
> KG> base64-encoded.
> 
> I also met this problem sometimes. I guess whether base64.el had been
> loaded when this happened. To verify my guess, check (featurep 'base64)
> when the stuff is not decoded. GNUS does not complain since the
> following codes are found in mm-decode-content-transfer-encoding.
> 
>     (condition-case ()
> 	(base64-decode-region (point-min) (point-max))
>       (error nil))
> 
> Since I added (require 'base64) in .gnus, this bug never happened to
> me.

I posted a patch yesterday to mm-bodies.el that should fix the problem
you're seeing with mm-decode-content-transfer-encoding and the loading
of base64.el.  Lars says it'll be in 0.32.


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matta