Unreadable messages after gnus-mime-save-part-and-strip in XEmacs (was: 21.5 crash in Gnus)

[Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>]

On Fri, Jul 21 2006, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> The problem that I run into regularly (not always, but a few times a
> month) is that when I gnus-mime-save-part-and-strip, I get a message
> edit buffer after the part is saved.  It looks OK, so I C-c C-c to
> save it.  Then Gnus gets confused about the charset of the text
> content of the message and misencodes it.  The net result is that the
> message is unreadable.  

Hm, to my knowledge Gnus runs the buffer through the same MIME
encoding mechanisms as when composing a regular message.

> Any attempt to edit the message using "e" gives the same (or worse)
> results.
>
> I don't have a test case to hand, so I can't be more precise.

Maybe you'll be able to save the raw buffer some day so we might be
able to reproduce it.

Does anyone else see such problems?

Bye, Reiner.
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