Re: Any chance of getting gnus to handle mime attachments?

[Ed Hartnett]

Karl Kleinpaste <karl@charcoal.com> writes:

> 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.


Is there a way for me to edit the message to put the correct separator
in a get GNUS to understanding?

Reforming the mailers of all people who send me support emails is a
*little* bit beyond my job description.

Thanks,

Ed

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