From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/8175 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Abrahams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Attachments in forwarded messages garbled Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 12:19:50 -0500 Message-ID: <87mz71c0uh.fsf@pereiro.luannocracy.com> References: <87psbyed2i.fsf@pereiro.luannocracy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1163006464 3732 80.91.229.2 (8 Nov 2006 17:21:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2006 17:21:04 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 08 18:21:03 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ghr6Y-00048y-Hu for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Nov 2006 18:20:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ghr6X-0001xB-UC for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Nov 2006 12:20:49 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ghr6U-0001ur-Hl for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Nov 2006 12:20:46 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ghr6S-0001sz-7a for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Nov 2006 12:20:45 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ghr6S-0001sw-1u for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Nov 2006 12:20:44 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1Ghr6R-0001y7-AX for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Nov 2006 12:20:43 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Ghr5o-0003y2-6C for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Nov 2006 18:20:04 +0100 Original-Received: from 216-15-125-177.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.cable.rcn.com ([216.15.125.177]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 08 Nov 2006 18:20:04 +0100 Original-Received: from dave by 216-15-125-177.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.cable.rcn.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 08 Nov 2006 18:20:04 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-Lines: 40 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 216-15-125-177.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.cable.rcn.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/23.0.0 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:PXLJXceY8MuMKZ2lSbB3pJoElQQ= X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:8175 Archived-At: Reiner Steib 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