From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/5188 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ed Hartnett Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Any chance of getting gnus to handle mime attachments? Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 09:12:06 -0600 Organization: National Center for Atmospheric Research Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138670970 26427 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 01:29:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:29:30 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:34:55 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!news.ccs.neu.edu!news.dfci.harvard.edu!news.cis.ohio-state.edu!news.ems.psu.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!frgp!ucar!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: rodney.unidata.ucar.edu Original-X-Trace: news.ucar.edu 1118243526 31135 128.117.140.88 (8 Jun 2005 15:12:06 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@news.ucar.edu Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 15:12:06 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:JgJuy8eWnKEA1SJ+4XxNfE7QLC4= Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:5330 Original-Lines: 69 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 5330 Tue Jan 17 17:34:55 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:5188 Archived-At: Karl Kleinpaste writes: > Ed Hartnett 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 RGVhcnMsDQpJIHdhbm5hIGluc3RhbGwgdGhlIG5ldGNkZiBvbiBteSBDeWd3aW4gc3lzdGVtICgg bXkgT1MgaXMgd2luZG93czIwMDApLCBidXQgY2Fubm90IG1ha2UgaXQuIEkgaGF2ZSB0aWVkIHRo ZSB0cm91Ymxlc2hvb3Rpbmcgc3VjaCBjb3B5IGJpbmFyeSBjb2RlIG9mIGxpbnV4XzIuNC1pNjg2 IHRvIC91c3IvbG9jYXIsIGJ1dCBpdCBzdGlsbCBjYW5ub3Qgd29yay4gRm9sbG93aW5nIGlzIHRo ZSBpbmZvbWF0aW9uIGFib3V0IHRoZSBpbnN0YWxsYXRpb24sIHBscyBraW5kbHkgaGVscCBtZS5U aGFua3MgYSBsb3QhDQpDaGVlcnMsDQpNaWNhZWwgV2FuZw0KDQoqKioqKioqKioqKioqKioqKioq KioqKioqKioqKioqKioqKioqKioqKioqKioqKioqKioqKioqKioqKioqKioqKioqKioqKioqKioq KioqKioqKioqKg0KMSB0aGUgZXhhY3QgdmVyc2lvbiBvZiBuZXRDREYgLSBzZWUgdGhlIHNyYy9W RVJTSU9OIGZpbGUuDQpuZXRjZGYtMy42LjANCg0KMiB0aGUgKmNvbXBsZXRlKiBvdXRwdXQgb2Yg obAuL2NvbmZpZ3VyZaGxLCChsG1ha2WhsSwgYW5kIKGwbWFrZSB0ZXN0obEuIFllcywgaXQncyBs b25nLCBidXQgaXQncyBhbGwgaW1wb3J0YW50LiANCi4vY29uZmlndXJlIC0tcHJlZml4PS91c3Iv bG9jYWwNCg0KY2hlY2tpbmcgYnVpbGQgc3lzdGVtIHR5cGUuLi4gaTY4Ni1wYy1jeWd3aW4NCmNo etc... What do I do to get gnus to do something with this? Thanks, Ed -- Ed Hartnett -- ed@unidata.ucar.edu