From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/5199 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Any chance of getting gnus to handle mime attachments? Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 17:26:16 -0400 Organization: Bell Sympatico Message-ID: <87hdg8ft1a.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.gnus@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138670977 26460 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 01:29:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:29:37 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:34:56 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed.gazeta.pl!newsfeed.pionier.net.pl!news.glorb.com!wn12feed!worldnet.att.net!207.35.177.252!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:mZKPzoA7Fv/TKneQBCs9LCcts7A= Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 70.48.82.205 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca Original-X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1118265978 70.48.82.205 (Wed, 08 Jun 2005 17:26:18 EDT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 17:26:18 EDT Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:5341 Original-Lines: 36 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 5341 Tue Jan 17 17:34:56 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:5199 Archived-At: > X-From-Line: imap Wed Jun 8 07:39:46 2005 > Return-Path: > Received: from laraine.unidata.ucar.edu (laraine.unidata.ucar.edu [128.117.140.62]) > by unidata.ucar.edu (UCAR/Unidata) with SMTP id j58Cw7Zu021468 > for ; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 06:58:07 -0600 (MDT) > X-Gnus-Mail-Source: imap:mail:INBOX > Message-Id: <200506081258.j58Cw7Zu021468@unidata.ucar.edu> > Organization: UCAR/Unidata > Keywords: 200506081258.j58Cw7Zu021468 > To: ed@unidata.ucar.edu > Subject: 20050608: netCDF under cygwin > Reply-to: xxxxx@mail.iap.ac.cn > Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 06:58:07 -0600 > From: Unidata Support > Xref: rodney.unidata.ucar.edu support:178 > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----- Forwarded Message" > Lines: 3833 It's not clear from the above header what software was used to generate this email message. Why don't you ask the sender what software he used and tell him his software has a bug that makes his forwarded email appear like garbage. The kind of brokenness above is not that common, so it's unlikely that you need to tell *all* the people who send you support email to reform their mailer. Or maybe you can just tell them to avoid "forward" and use some other means. This said, I do find Gnus's MIME support could be improved w.r.t handling bad MIME. E.g. being able to display just the header (and/or the raw undecoded data) of a particular part of a multipart message; or being able to tell Gnus to "try and guess"; ... Stefan