[Bug-mit-scheme] confusion about extracting attachments from forwarded mail

[Julie Sussman]

==>I received a forwarded message (forwarded by imail),
   which looked like this:



Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:02:00 -0400
From: address@hidden
To: address@hidden
Subject: address@hidden: CSAIL Annual Meeting Logistics & Agenda]


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<imail-part
    type="message/rfc822"
    from="Victoria Palay"
    subject="CSAIL Annual Meeting Logistics & Agenda"
    length="203653"
    />



==>I used C-c C-t C-e to display the forwarded message, and saw that
   it contained two pdf attachments at the end, like this:


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<imail-part
    name="CSAILAgenda_6_22_08.pdf"
    type="application/pdf"
    length="103678"
    />

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<imail-part
    name="directions_bost.pdf"
    type="application/pdf"
    length="95282"
    />



==>C-o while positioned on either of those two attachments did indeed
   write out a pdf file, but it wrote the *same* pdf file
   (directions_bost.pdf) regardless of which I was positioned on when
   I typed control-o.

   I started to write to you: "I cannot find a way to see the first
   pdf above."  but then I looked in the documetntation and found the
   w command, so I used it on the imail-part of the original untoggled
   message to save the forwarded message as a text file.

   Since that's not a mail file, imail couldn't read it in and save
   the attachments for me ... So I tried to uudeview it in a shell and
   that worked -- I got both pdf files.

Well, I succeeded, but I jumped through some hoops.
Should that have been necessary?

Thanks,
Julie