From: David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com>
Subject: Re: Attachments in forwarded messages garbled
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 12:19:50 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mz71c0uh.fsf@pereiro.luannocracy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <v98ximmfui.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de>
Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:
> On Wed, Nov 08 2006, David Abrahams wrote:
>
>> Ever since I made the switch to Linux for my main machine, I've been
>> having the problem that when I forward (gnus-summary-mail-forward) a
>> message that contains an attachment, the recipent gets a garbled
>> version of the original attachment.
>
> Without *any* kind of information what is kind of problem the
> "garbled" message/attachment has, it's next to impossible to help you.
> You might send such a message to gmane.test or send us a gzipped mbox
> of the received message. Be sure not to include private stuff.
I will arrange such a test in a follow-up message.
>> I am using a CVS version of Emacs.
>
> In this article, you used Emacs 23 (CVS unicode branch; experimental).
> Please try to reproduce the problem with Emacs 22 (CVS trunk or
> pretest tarball).
I did it already with the HEAD of the CVS trunk and the result is the
same. I am having a very hard time figuring out which tags correspond
to various releases.
>> I see this effect both with the version of Gnus it ships with and
>> with a CVS HEAD version of Gnus. I have unfortunately been unable
>> to test this with a release version (21.4) of emacs; Gnus just won't
>> start up for me in that version :(
>
> Independent from the attachment problem, it might be worth to debug
> this problem.
Yes, it might. But the other problem is more critical to me.
--
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
www.boost-consulting.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-08 17:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-08 5:12 David Abrahams
2006-11-08 9:45 ` Reiner Steib
2006-11-08 17:19 ` David Abrahams [this message]
2006-11-10 0:27 ` David Abrahams
2006-11-08 17:28 ` David Abrahams
2006-11-08 17:54 ` Leo
2006-11-08 20:38 ` David Abrahams
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