GNU bug report logs - #34992
26.1; message-send-mail-with-mailclient mangles MIME messages

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: David Bremner <david <at> tethera.net>

Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2019 12:44:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed

Found in version 26.1

Fixed in version 27.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 34992 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: David Bremner <david <at> tethera.net>
Cc: 34992 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#34992: 26.1;
 message-send-mail-with-mailclient mangles MIME messages
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2019 17:40:53 +0200

> From: David Bremner <david <at> tethera.net>
> Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2019 09:43:18 -0300
> 
> 
> To verify this in emacs -q
> 
> (setq message-send-mail-function #'message-send-mail-with-mailclient)
> (message-mail)
> 
> now attach a file, and send.
> 
> Notice that the whole encoded mime message is wrapped in a text/plain
> part, which breaks most (all?) MUAs ability to read the message.
> 
> I'm not sure what a sensible fix is here.

One possibility would be for message-mode to refuse to add attachments
when message-send-mail-function is set up to use the system mail
client.  The user should be told to attach using the mail client
facilities instead.
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