A Solaris compatibility package?

A Solaris compatibility package?

[Sergei Pokrovsky]

The Solaris "Mailer" program produces attachments and forwards which
are not compatible with my gnus (I have "Mailer 1.3.0" and Gnus
v.5.8.8).  I do not know which one deviates from the standards, but
practically I use gnus for both mail and news.  But still, I have to
work which colleagues who often send me attachments or forwarded mail
which I cannot easily read.  That is, I can do it, but I have to save
it somewhere and and perform the necessary conversions outside gnus).

Now I wonder, given considerable number of people who use gnus on
Solaris, is there a plugin package which would enable me to easily
open an Solaris Mailer attachment, or a forwarded message presently
shown like this:

,----
| X-Sun-Data-Type: sun-deskset-message
| X-Sun-Data-Name: sun-deskset-message
| X-Sun-Encoding-Info: uuencode
| X-Sun-Content-Lines: 683
| 
| [2. application/octet-stream; sun-deskset-message]...
| 
| ----------
| X-Sun-Data-Type: sun-deskset-message
| X-Sun-Data-Name: sun-deskset-message
| X-Sun-Encoding-Info: uuencode
| X-Sun-Content-Lines: 589
| 
| [4. application/octet-stream; sun-deskset-message]...
| 
| ----------
| X-Sun-Data-Type: sun-deskset-message
| X-Sun-Data-Name: sun-deskset-message
| X-Sun-Encoding-Info: uuencode
| X-Sun-Content-Lines: 957
| 
| [6. application/octet-stream; sun-deskset-message]...
| 
`----

(Presently the only option offered is
"Save MIME part to: ~/sun-deskset-message".)

-- 
Sergei

Re: A Solaris compatibility package?

[Kai Großjohann]

Sergei Pokrovsky <pok@none.nowhere.invalid> writes:

> (Presently the only option offered is
> "Save MIME part to: ~/sun-deskset-message".)

Wow, I'm surprised that Gnus deals so well with this stuff.
Actually, the Sun messages conform to a Sun standard, and Sun
themselves have migrated to MIME with Solaris and CDE.

Try typing `t' on the MIME button, instead of RET.  That ought to
offer you a list of MIME types -- if you already know what's inside
the attachment, you could choose the right one.  If you don't know
what's in there... hm.  Maybe you could type `v' and specify "file %s"
(sans quotes) as the viewer.  That would tell you what's in the file.
Then you can choose the right viewer with `v' or type with `t'.

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Re: A Solaris compatibility package?

[Sergei Pokrovsky]

>>>>> "Kai" == Kai Großjohann <kai.grossjohann@gmx.net> writes:

  Kai> Sergei Pokrovsky <pok@none.nowhere.invalid> writes:
  >> Most often it contains an uuencoded message from a Solaris
  >> mailbox.  I would like to open it with gnus, rather than send it
  >> to Mail; and I'd like it to pass the usual MIME treatment,
  >> e.g. in what concerns the encodings.  But I do not know how to
  >> call a "gnusclient".

  Kai> In that case, C-d might be your friend.  What's the summary
  Kai> buffer that it produces?

None.  It says (in the *Messages* buffer):

,----
| Opening nndoc server on nndoc:nnml:ISI-36-ephemeral...
| Opening nndoc server on nndoc:nnml:ISI-36-ephemeral...done
| Opening nndoc server on nndoc:nnml:ISI-36-ephemeral+nndoc:nnml:ISI-36...
| Opening nndoc server on nndoc:nnml:ISI-36-ephemeral+nndoc:nnml:ISI-36...done
| No articles in group nnml:ISI-36
| Couldn't request group: No articles in group nnml:ISI-36
`----

  Kai> I'm not sure if it contains what you need, though.

Alas, no luck :(

-- 
Sergei