Re: How To Add 'Mime-Version' header to incoming email

[Reiner Steib]

On Tue, May 26 2009, bigfaceworm wrote:

> Our bug-tracking system sends email, and about a third of the time the
> email doesn't have the header
>
>     MIME-Version: 1.0
>
> but the contents are in HTML.
>
> Of course gnus doesn't render it, but shows me the crummy HTML.  

Does setting `gnus-article-loose-mime' to t help?

,----[ <f1> v gnus-article-loose-mime RET ]
| gnus-article-loose-mime is a variable defined in `gnus-sum.el'.
| Its value is t
| 
| Documentation:
| If non-nil, don't require MIME-Version header.
| Some brain-damaged MUA/MTA, e.g. Lotus Domino 5.0.6 clients, does not
| supply the MIME-Version header or deliberately strip it from the mail.
| If non-nil (the default), Gnus will treat some articles as MIME
| even if the MIME-Version header is missing.
| 
| You can customize this variable.
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> A simple 'e C-cC-c' fixes it (edit, end editing) b/c it adds the
> MIME header - but I'd like to do that automatically.  Any pointers
> to hooks/ functions to customize?

,----[ <f1> v nnmail-prepare-incoming-header-hook RET ]
| nnmail-prepare-incoming-header-hook is a variable defined in `nnmail.el'.
| Its value is nil
| 
| 
| Documentation:
| Hook called narrowed to the headers of each message.
| This can be used to remove excessive spaces (and stuff like
| that) from the headers before splitting and saving the messages.
| 
| You can customize this variable.
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Bye, Reiner.
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