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message: Should know how to handle "application/mbox" parts

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From: Samuel Bronson <naesten <at> gmail.com>
To: submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (The Gnus Bugfixing Girls + Boys)
Subject: message: Should know how to handle "application/mbox" parts
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 20:18:48 -0400

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]

Severity: wishlist

I'm including an mbox file in this bug report.

It should be easy to see what's inside, right?  After all, collections
of news/mail messages are gnus' favorite thing!  Sadly, it doesn't seem
to actually work.

(The content of the mbox is irrelevant.)

Here it is:

[revive-symlinks.mbox (application/mbox, inline)]

[Message part 3 (text/plain, inline)]

(It is possible that it would be better to use a different MIME type for
this, in which case I guess either Debian's mime-support" package is at
fault, or some evil entity took control of my body and/or computer at
some point in the past in order to corrupt the relevant entry in my
/etc/mime.types file.)

In fact, if I'm interpreting what upstream told me correctly, debbugs
will have rendered this as a series of mails inline.

Now, I'm not the savviest gnus user, but I'm doubtful as to whether that
sort of rendering is sufficiently gnus-y, and it may of course be too
much trouble.  It would be quite reasonable, IMO, if gnus even just knew
how to open these as [ephemeral] groups, and insisted on prompting for a
path to save them to for processing.  Just as long as the prompt made it
clear that that was why it wanted to save the file!

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Message #12 received at 18043 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Samuel Bronson <naesten <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 18043 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#18043: message: Should know how to handle "application/mbox"
 parts
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2018 23:28:25 +0200

Samuel Bronson <naesten <at> gmail.com> writes:

> It should be easy to see what's inside, right?  After all, collections
> of news/mail messages are gnus' favorite thing!  Sadly, it doesn't seem
> to actually work.
>
> (The content of the mbox is irrelevant.)
>
> Here it is:
>
>
> (It is possible that it would be better to use a different MIME type for
> this, in which case I guess either Debian's mime-support" package is at
> fault, or some evil entity took control of my body and/or computer at
> some point in the past in order to corrupt the relevant entry in my
> /etc/mime.types file.)

I have never seen an application/mbox type in the wild -- you'd 
use a MIME digest or something if you want to send a bunch of messages
to other people.

So I don't think this is something that would make sense to implement.

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