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From: Mikhail Pachkov <pachkovREMOVETHAT@minet.uni-jena.de>
Subject: Re: How can I send certain emails in text/plain , not base64?
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2003 15:31:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pteym5a6.fsf@ipc641.bioinf.uni-jena.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3ekveay6f.fsf@defun.localdomain>

Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com> writes:

>>>> Is it possible to make gnus send some mails in text/plain instead of
>>>> base64?
>>>
>>> text/plain and base64 aren't mutually exclusive.  You need to give
>>> some more details about what you want to do.
>>
>> There is a mailing list. It is required to send messages to list in
>> text/plain -- body and subject. I have found that my messages are
>> base64 encoded since I write in cyrillic. How can I make gnus send
>> letters as plain/text.
>
> text/plain is a content-type, and base64 is a
> content-transfer-encoding (CTE).
>
> Saying that you want text/plain rather than base64 doesn't make sense,
> since the CTE of text/plain can be base64.  Like I said, text/plain
> does not exclude base64.
>
> What you probably mean is that you would like to use 8bit as the CTE
> for cyrillic.  To do that customize the option
> `gnus-group-posting-charset-alist' to allow the charsets you're using
> for cyrillic to be sent unencoded.

That seems to be exactly what I need. I will try it. Thank you very much.


> PS: Please respond to gnu.emacs.gnus rather than by email.
> PPS: Don't use a fake email address, if you expect to get answers by
> email.

I am very much sorry for that mistake. I have pressed wrong button and
did not realized that it is going to your e-mail not to the group.

Good luck!

Mikhail

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       reply	other threads:[~2003-12-09 14:31 UTC|newest]

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     [not found] ` <m3fzfuc43h.fsf@defun.localdomain>
     [not found]   ` <m3ekveay6f.fsf@defun.localdomain>
2003-12-09 14:31     ` Mikhail Pachkov [this message]
2003-12-09 14:42       ` Jacob Bunk Nielsen

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