Forwarding big attachment.

Forwarding big attachment.

[Paul Stevenson]

Hello.
Someone emailed me a huge picture as an attachment.  I decided to
forward it to another mail account I have for some good reason which
now escapes me.  I entered the group and had the appropriate article
displayed, and typed 'S o m' since that is the keystroke I can
remember when I need to forward things.

  Now gnus decided it needed to decode the attachments and re-encode
before forwarding.  This was wretched, as they were big base64
attachments, and this is a slow old sun machine.  If I ask nicely I
might get a newer emacs installed which can do base64 ..coding more
quickly, but is it really necessary for gnus to decode then recode
when forwarding?

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Re: Forwarding big attachment.

[Paul Stevenson]

Paul Stevenson <P.Stevenson@surrey.ac.uk> writes:

> Hello.Someone emailed me a huge picture as an attachment.  I decided to

Oh weird.  The article as composed and Gcc'd succesfully to my
sent-mail folder had a newline between the "Hello." and the "Someone".
Could this be gnus' fault, or some intermediate MTA's?  Or my fault for
having

;; don't archive attachments
(defadvice gnus-inews-do-gcc 
  (around gnus-news-do-gcc-inhibit-body-encoding  first activate)
  (let ((message-inhibit-body-encoding t))
    ad-do-it))

in my .gnus file?

Re: Forwarding big attachment.

[Kai Großjohann]

I think if you use `S D r' for resending, then it won't be decoded and
encoded again.
kai
-- 
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Re: Forwarding big attachment.

[Felix Hagemann]

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> I think if you use `S D r' for resending, then it won't be decoded and
> encoded again.

What's the difference then between `C-c C-f' (gnus-summary-mail-forward)
and `S D r' (gnus-summary-resend-message)?  Does it have to do with the
handling of attachments?

Bye,
Fx

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Re: Forwarding big attachment.

[Kai Großjohann]

On 16 Jan 2001, Felix Hagemann wrote:

> What's the difference then between `C-c C-f'
> (gnus-summary-mail-forward) and `S D r'
> (gnus-summary-resend-message)?  Does it have to do with the handling
> of attachments?

`S D r' just hands the msg to sendmail again, giving a new recipient
address.  Nothing at all is changed in the msg.  (Only a new Resent-To
header is added, but the body doesn't change.)

`C-c C-f' creates a new message with the old one as an attachment.
This allows you to add more text.

kai
-- 
Be indiscrete.  Do it continuously.

Re: Forwarding big attachment.

[Paul Jarc]

Paul Stevenson <p.stevenson@surrey.ac.uk> writes:
> Paul Stevenson <P.Stevenson@surrey.ac.uk> writes:
> > Hello.Someone emailed me a huge picture as an attachment.  I decided to
> 
> Oh weird.  The article as composed and Gcc'd succesfully to my
> sent-mail folder had a newline between the "Hello." and the "Someone".

The newline is also present in the copy I received, so the problem
seems to be at your receiving end.  I'm using 5.8.7 with nnmaildir,
FWIW.


paul

Re: Forwarding big attachment.

[Paul Stevenson]

prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes:

> Paul Stevenson <p.stevenson@surrey.ac.uk> writes:
> >
> > > Hello.Someone emailed me a huge picture as an attachment.  I decided to
> > 
> > Oh weird.  The article as composed and Gcc'd succesfully to my
> > sent-mail folder had a newline between the "Hello." and the "Someone".
> 
> The newline is also present in the copy I received, so the problem
> seems to be at your receiving end.  I'm using 5.8.7 with nnmaildir,
> FWIW.

Thanks for the response.  I no longer have the Incoming* file, but
it's mangled in the nnfolder file (i.e. gnus isn't washing it oddly so
that it only appears wrongly when displayed).  I'll see if I can get
the mail people here interested.