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Re: Any chance of getting gnus to handle mime attachments?
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Karl Kleinpaste |
Subject: |
Re: Any chance of getting gnus to handle mime attachments? |
Date: |
Wed, 08 Jun 2005 13:47:50 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) XEmacs/21.5-b20 (linux) |
Ed Hartnett <ed@unidata.ucar.edu> writes:
> Could you please elaborate?
> What is the boundary supposed to look like?
In the header, Content-Type provides the boundary between message
parts. That string must appear exactly in the next part. Your sample
message claims a Content-Type boundary string which is unrelated to
the boundary strings actually in the body.
This is a prime example of Gnus' overachieving in MIME; Gnus actually
obeys the spec. If a message has been generated by a buggy origin
agent, tough: Gnus will deal with it on its merits. Gnus will not
guess at what might appear, to fuzzy human thinking, to be a proper
MIME indicator. (For example, older Netscape mail would intuit
MIMEness in the absence of MIME-Version -- grotesquely wrong behavior.)
At a guess, the sender's mailer botched the recursive MIMEness of a
forwarded message which in turn had its own MIME content. "Oops."
Many mailers have a broken concept of "forwarding" in which they
neglect to include _all_ the headers necessary to preserve the
message's MIME content descriptors and indicate their own content.
Tell the sender to get a real mailer. One that doesn't generate garbage.
- Any chance of getting gnus to handle mime attachments?, Ed Hartnett, 2005/06/08
- Re: Any chance of getting gnus to handle mime attachments?, David Kastrup, 2005/06/08
- Re: Any chance of getting gnus to handle mime attachments?, Karl Kleinpaste, 2005/06/08
- Re: Any chance of getting gnus to handle mime attachments?, Ed Hartnett, 2005/06/08
- Re: Any chance of getting gnus to handle mime attachments?, Karl Kleinpaste, 2005/06/08
- Re: Any chance of getting gnus to handle mime attachments?, Ed Hartnett, 2005/06/08
- Re: Any chance of getting gnus to handle mime attachments?, Karl Kleinpaste, 2005/06/08
- Re: Any chance of getting gnus to handle mime attachments?, Ed Hartnett, 2005/06/08
- Re: Any chance of getting gnus to handle mime attachments?,
Karl Kleinpaste <=
- Re: Any chance of getting gnus to handle mime attachments?, Ed Hartnett, 2005/06/08
- Re: Any chance of getting gnus to handle mime attachments?, Karl Kleinpaste, 2005/06/08
- Re: Any chance of getting gnus to handle mime attachments?, Stefan Monnier, 2005/06/08