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

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Message #42 received at control <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Xavier Maillard <xma <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 1141 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#1141: 23.0.60; RMAIL: can't display base64 encoded message
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:21:48 -0500

reassign 1141 emacs,rmail
tags 1141 moreinfo
stop

>    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.

AFAICS the existing `rmail-mime' command (bound to the "v" key) in the
current trunk handles this example just fine. (I did have to edit the
example a bit, but I think that was just to extract it from the mail it
was embedded in when sent to this list.)

If it works for you I would like to close this bug.

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