Re: Gnus and Emacs 20.3 and MIME

[Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no>]

>>>>> "Edward J. Sabol" <sabol@alderaan.gsfc.nasa.gov>:

> I'm rather partial to `rmime.el' and its simple, straightforward
> implementation (especially compared to tm's complexity). I really
> hope Lars takes a similar approach to implementing MIME in pgnus.

I used to use rmime.el with VM, back in 1995.  But I found it too
simple and limitied, so I switched to mh-e which had better itegration 
with TM.

I tried using mew and its integrated MIME support, but I didn't like
the handling of the attachments.

I gradually moved from using Gnus with nnmh on the same folders I was
using MH-E on, and switching between the two, and moved all the way to 
Gnus in february of 1997, after getting TM to work in a satisfactory
manner with Gnus.

The fact that TM clashed with the 20.x series of GNU emacs, with MBSK, 
made me stay with 19.34 until my Solaris box crashed, and I switched
to a linux box with 20.2 MBSK.

Since that switch, I've been running late qgnus releases, with TM
7.106 on XEmacs 20.4.  This combination is something I would be happy
with if extension and modification was easier.  I haven't dug more
deeply into TM, because it is 
 1. no longer supported (I haven't had the time or inclination to do
    more than look *ligthly* into SEMI.  I couldn't get it to work at
    my first attempt at installing it, and I knew TM worked, so I
    dropped it)
 2. I'm hoping and waiting for integrated MIME support in Gnus


- Steinar