From: Ed Hartnett <ed@unidata.ucar.edu>
Subject: Re: Any chance of getting gnus to handle mime attachments?
Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 09:12:06 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <wrxu0k8q3w9.fsf@rodney.unidata.ucar.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vxk4qc8ap45.fsf@mesquite.charcoal.com>
Karl Kleinpaste <karl@charcoal.com> writes:
> Ed Hartnett <ed@unidata.ucar.edu> writes:
>> How do I get gnus to handle mime attachments?
>> For example, I get email like the following. What do I do with it?
>
> For starters, you'll have to put some context around the concept
> "can't handle." This is akin to one of my computer-illiterate friends
> saying, "My computer isn't working," to which my first sarcastic
> response is, "Plug it in and turn it on." That is, if you won't tell
> us which of the 31,264,388 things that might possibly go wrong with a
> computer is currently troubling you, we can't possibly help you, so
> we'll start you at the bottom level and work up.
>
> When Gnus gained native MIME comprehension some years ago, Lars was so
> careful about it that he, and the Gnus development mailing list folks,
> managed to find a half dozen or more bugs in other mail clients
> because those clients didn't follow the spec properly.
>
> Gnus does MIME. In fact, Gnus does MIME just about as well as any
> other mail/news program out there. Tell us _specifically_ what Gnus
> is doing wrong, and we'll see if it's a bona fide bug, or a
> configuration problem on your part, or confusion over what's
> happening, or something else entirely.
>
> Bugs are found all the time. Maybe you've tripped over a new one.
> That said, Gnus' MIME handling is pretty much second to none.
>
> --karl
I get a mime message. It looks like this:
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
------=_NextPart_RTV6YGPT0A6RG9PMMD0TK2F2
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="----=_NextPart_VVQY6VL4U8EJT0IS0DPWS595"
------=_NextPart_VVQY6VL4U8EJT0IS0DPWS595
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="gb2312"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64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...
What do I do to get gnus to do something with this?
Thanks,
Ed
--
Ed Hartnett -- ed@unidata.ucar.edu
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-08 15:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-08 13:47 Ed Hartnett
2005-06-08 14:05 ` David Kastrup
2005-06-08 14:40 ` Karl Kleinpaste
2005-06-08 15:12 ` Ed Hartnett [this message]
2005-06-08 15:49 ` Karl Kleinpaste
2005-06-08 16:11 ` Ed Hartnett
2005-06-08 16:47 ` Karl Kleinpaste
2005-06-08 17:02 ` Ed Hartnett
2005-06-08 17:47 ` Karl Kleinpaste
2005-06-08 18:37 ` Ed Hartnett
2005-06-08 19:27 ` Karl Kleinpaste
2005-06-08 21:26 ` Stefan Monnier
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