From: asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren)
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: unreadable message
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:29:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d4gucfrt.fsf@topper.koldfront.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.3140.1226170065.25473.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
On Sun, 09 Nov 2008 05:22:17 +1000, Alexey wrote:
>> I am not sure this is a bug in Gnus - from what you have presented so
>> far, it sounds like lack of MIME support in your friends' programmes.
> This is very unlikely. Usually, famous web mail services (e.g. google,
> yahoo, yandex, hotmail) have proper MIME support. However, my Gnus
> produces these unreadable messages, some of which I cannot read myself
> even after decoding, as I already said.
If you have one of these unreadable messages (that does not contain
anything secret you shouldn't reveal), I suggest you post it to the
list, so developers can look at it.
Saying "sometimes it doesn't work" doesn't give them much to work on :-)
>> ,----[ C-h v mm-content-transfer-encoding-defaults RET ]
>> You can change the value of this variable if you don't want Gnus to
>> choose between quoted-printable and base64 automatically.
> Well, that's all fine, but what's really happening is that users
> may type cyrillic (utf8), hit (C-c C-c) and the result may be either
> readable or unreadable or readable after decoding.
Please show us an an example.
> We don't know that beforehand and I think we need not because the MUA
> is expected to do that consistently. If it doesn't, I presume that to
> be a bug.
I would expect Gnus to choose the same encoding for two identical
emails. For two different emails, you can't be sure - see the
documentation of the above mentioned variable.
> What do you think?
I won't say you're wrong, but an example would make your case much more
convincing :-)
Best regards,
Adam
--
"For the fireengines Adam Sjøgren
But they were all upside down" asjo@koldfront.dk
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2008-11-08 19:22 ` Alexey Pustyntsev
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2008-11-17 19:29 ` Adam Sjøgren [this message]
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2008-12-07 13:09 ` Alexey Pustyntsev
[not found] ` <mailman.2130.1228657054.26697.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2008-12-07 13:53 ` Adam Sjøgren
[not found] <20081122170614.43FA5AF4EA@sycore.org>
2008-12-03 12:52 ` Alexey Pustyntsev
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[not found] ` <1682991423.20081121000628@mail.ru>
2008-12-03 9:12 ` Alexey Pustyntsev
[not found] <20081120170954.CEF57AEB9D@sycore.org>
2008-11-21 4:26 ` Alexey Pustyntsev
[not found] ` <87k5ah83de.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de>
2008-12-04 19:53 ` Reiner Steib
[not found] ` <mailman.913.1227239500.26697.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2008-11-21 18:38 ` Adam Sjøgren
[not found] <20081118170628.3744BADFB1@sycore.org>
2008-11-19 3:41 ` Alexey Pustyntsev
[not found] <20081030170648.D58A5A7629@sycore.org>
2008-11-08 6:05 ` Alexey Pustyntsev
[not found] ` <mailman.3101.1226122268.25473.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2008-11-08 12:24 ` Adam Sjøgren
[not found] <20081003161005.9293E9D50B@sycore.org>
2008-10-29 4:02 ` Alexey Pustyntsev
[not found] ` <mailman.2329.1225250763.25473.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2008-10-29 19:58 ` Adam Sjøgren
2008-11-08 15:50 ` poppyer
[not found] <20081002160838.596DE9CE6D@sycore.org>
2008-10-03 3:33 ` Alexey Pustyntsev
[not found] <20080924160707.CC00B99F3C@sycore.org>
2008-10-01 6:54 ` Alexey Pustyntsev
2008-10-01 7:02 ` Alexey Pustyntsev
2008-10-01 17:47 ` Reiner Steib
2008-09-14 2:50 Alexey Pustyntsev
2008-09-23 19:26 ` Reiner Steib
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