From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/13901 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steinar Bang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: More On Mime Date: 11 Feb 1998 10:10:12 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.105) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035153183 11775 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:33:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:33:03 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA15113 for ; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 01:15:27 -0800 Original-Received: from gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (gizmo.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.31]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA11887 for ; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 03:12:39 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (sina.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.3.5]) by gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id DAN12330; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 03:48:55 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 11 Feb 1998 03:11:01 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA04278 for ; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 03:10:53 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 3156 invoked by uid 504); 11 Feb 1998 09:10:48 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 3153 invoked from network); 11 Feb 1998 09:10:47 -0000 Original-Received: from norne.oslo.metis.no (195.0.254.238) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 11 Feb 1998 09:10:46 -0000 Original-Received: by norne.oslo.metis.no (8.8.4/8.8.4) id KAA03999; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 10:10:13 +0100 (MET) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "10 Feb 1998 20:56:44 +0100" Original-Lines: 21 X-Mailer: Quassia Gnus v0.22/Emacs 19.34 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:13901 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:13901 >>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen : > I've now had a peek at Ray Moody's rmime.el, and I'm very impressed by > it. By the comments in it, I mean. I've never seen such a > well-commented package before in my life. It seems to be doing what > it's supposed to be doing as well, so I think it can be used for my > nefarious purposes. The problem is the copyright situation, but that > looks like it might work out. Stay tuned. You plan to replace metamail with elisp stuff, I hope? (Or doesn't rmime.el need metamail anymore? I haven't used it since my VM days (which was before my mh-e days (which was before my (current) Gnus days))) > William Perry's mm.el handles mailcap parsing well, and has lots of > MIME support functions, so I think if I basically take these two works > and squish them together (and add some more stuff), we should have > that simple MIME library with that interface I outlined earlier. Nice! But when you have this we'll start an undying thread about how we would like to see MIME stuff presented...:-)