GNU bug report logs - #1141
23.0.60; RMAIL: can't display base64 encoded message

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Xavier Maillard <xma <at> gnu.org>, 1141 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org, bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#1141: 23.0.60; RMAIL: can't display base64 encoded message
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 09:32:46 +0200

> Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 02:00:43 +0200
> From: Xavier Maillard <xma <at> gnu.org>
> Jabber-ID: xma01 <at> jabber.fr
> Cc: 
> 
> With latest emacs (CVS), several messages can't be displayed.
> 
> Here is one the message I can't read directly:
> 
> Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:29:09 +0200
> From: "CHARLIER Cyril" <ccharlier <at> lolica.org>
> To: "Xavier Maillard" <xma <at> gnu.org>
> Subject: Re: [lolica] Renouvelement loliwin.org ?
> Cc: lolica <at> lolica.org
> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; 
> 	boundary="----=_Part_98966_28250470.1223638149537"
> 
> ------=_Part_98966_28250470.1223638149537
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
> Content-Disposition: inline

Thank you for your report.

This is not a bug, but a missing feature.  Rmail never supported
multipart email messages.  There's an effort to add this to Rmail in
the future, but for now, you will have to decode the base64-encoded
part manually, after typing `e' to make the message editable: mark the
encoded part, type "M-x base64-decode-region RET", then "C-c C-c", and
finally "M-x rmail-redecode-body RET utf-8 RET" to decode the text
into Emacs's internal character representation.

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