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23.1; rmail-mime not decoding attachments

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From: Warren Dodge <warren.l.dodge <at> Tektronix.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 23.1; rmail-mime not decoding attachments
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 13:58:05 -0800

I just updated to emacs-23.1 and my RMAIL has been converted to mbox
format. I have been using the etach.el patch and M-X detach quite
successfully. It seems to have quit working in this version.

In using M-X rmail-mime it fails to properly decode attachments that
work successfully with etach.el

Is there work being done to enhance the functionality of rmail-mime? How
can I get the failing messages to someone?





In GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.6)
 of 2010-02-09 on zephyr
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Message #8 received at 5554 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Warren Dodge <warren.l.dodge <at> Tektronix.com>
Cc: 5554 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#5554: 23.1; rmail-mime not decoding attachments
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:07:32 -0500

Warren Dodge wrote:

> In using M-X rmail-mime it fails to properly decode attachments that
> work successfully with etach.el
>
> Is there work being done to enhance the functionality of rmail-mime?

It's already been done, and Emacs 23.2 (not yet released) should do
better. Can you try the pretest from

http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/emacs-23.1.92.tar.gz

(You cmay be able to just use the file rmailmm.el from that version
with 23.1, but I haven't checked that.)

Or try the Emacs Bazaar trunk, see

http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/emacs/

Message #11 received at 5554 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Warren Dodge <warren.l.dodge <at> Tektronix.com>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 5554 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#5554: 23.1; rmail-mime not decoding attachments
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 17:09:25 -0800

>  CC: 5554 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>  From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
>  Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 18:07:32 -0500
>  MIME-Version: 1.0
>  Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>  
>  Warren Dodge wrote:
>  
>  > In using M-X rmail-mime it fails to properly decode attachments that
>  > work successfully with etach.el
>  >
>  > Is there work being done to enhance the functionality of rmail-mime?
>  
>  It's already been done, and Emacs 23.2 (not yet released) should do
>  better. Can you try the pretest from
>  
>  http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/emacs-23.1.92.tar.gz
>  
>  (You cmay be able to just use the file rmailmm.el from that version
>  with 23.1, but I haven't checked that.)
>  
>  Or try the Emacs Bazaar trunk, see
>  
>  http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/emacs/
>  
>  

I built 23.1.92 and it does decode the emails I had better then 23.1

If a html block is in an email it doesn't take that into a file where
etach did. It was handy in that you could then have etach execute
firefox on the html captured in the file.

Does rmail-mime support clicking on the decoded attachments and running
an application on them?

Message #14 received at 5554 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Warren Dodge <warren.l.dodge <at> Tektronix.com>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#5554: 23.1; rmail-mime not decoding attachments
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 17:11:17 -0800

This is back to you only as I am not sure where to send it. Also not
sure if it is the alpha or just 23.1.



One other thing is why does the screen split left/right versus
top/bottom when you send email in a full window. Same thing for the
rmail colors changing. It is very disconcerting. After 20 years the
default operation should stay the same. If new things are added they
should be enabled by the user and not affect old users. This type of
changing causes more moaning from users then most any other thing.


Then I also notice C-x m allows multiple emails to be started. I think
this is nice but not sure if I wouldn't lose some of them. 

The big thing is c-c c-c sending an email takes forever compared to
22.3. Is that going to be fixed?

Message #21 received at 5554 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: warren.l.dodge <at> Tektronix.com
Cc: 5554 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#5554: 23.1; rmail-mime not decoding attachments
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:27:24 -0500

Warren Dodge wrote:

> If a html block is in an email it doesn't take that into a file where
> etach did. It was handy in that you could then have etach execute
> firefox on the html captured in the file.

I don't understand. Can you explain exactly what you want to be able
to do, preferably with an example email?

> Does rmail-mime support clicking on the decoded attachments and running
> an application on them?

No, it just lets you save them.

Message #24 received at 5554 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: warren.l.dodge <at> Tektronix.com
Cc: 5554 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#5554: 23.1; rmail-mime not decoding attachments
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:27:49 -0500

Warren Dodge wrote:

> This is back to you only as I am not sure where to send it.

Always to the bug address, please. (I resent your message there so no
need for you to do so.)

> One other thing is why does the screen split left/right versus
> top/bottom when you send email in a full window.

Try setting split-width-threshold to nil.

>  Same thing for the rmail colors changing. It is very disconcerting.

This is probably due to message-mode being used rather than mail-mode
(see my reply to your other report).

> The big thing is c-c c-c sending an email takes forever compared to
> 22.3. Is that going to be fixed?

If this still happens in 23.1.92, please make a separate bug report
using M-x report-emacs-bug, showing exactly what to do starting from
`emacs -Q'.

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