Re: Hidden lines in the message body

[Daniel C. Bastos]

Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> writes:

> Rodolfo Medina wrote:

[...]

> Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:
>
>> It is because of the MIME emulating feature of Gnus that is
>> enabled by default.  It splits peculiar sections, e.g. uuencoded
>> data, non-MIME forwarded messages, etc., in the message body into
>> MIME parts.  Your problem is a typical case that this feature
>> works unwillingly, that is,  Gnus misidentifies the
>> "------------------------------%<------------------------------"
>> lines as the separators of the `insert-marks' part (See mm-uu.el).
>>
>> The MIME emulating feature works only when displaying articles.
>> So, your messages will never be broken even if they look funny
>> to the recipients who use Gnus.  But there is no way to avoid it
>> other than to ask the recipients to disable this feature.  To do
>> that:
>>
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> (setq gnus-article-emulate-mime nil)
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>
>> or
>>
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> (eval-after-load "mm-uu"
>>   '(add-to-list 'mm-uu-configure-list
>>              '(insert-marks . disabled)))
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> Thanks.
> The problem seems to be solved since I put in .gnus.el the line:
>
>  (setq gnus-article-emulate-mime nil)
>
> 1) Is that what you meant? (I don't well understand the meaning of the lines
>    where it says `cut here', `start', `end'.)

The meaning of these lines is that what follows the one in ``start'' is
the first line of code; so you should copy that one and the ones that
follow it until you see another ``cut here'' in which case you stop
copying.

Usually, people are not that clear about what is code and what's
not. People usually write them out together with text in the hope that
readers can distinguish them. These lines ``cut here'' seem to come from
industrial product boxes which sometimes comes with instructions to the
consumer and part of these instructions is to cut the box (or the paper,
or whatever it is) and do something such as sending it to the company by
mail. This has been brought to Internet e-mail as a way to, as above,
tell you to copy some part of the message and paste it somewhere
else. It's interesting you didn't find them familiar. Where are you
from?