Re: gnus/message binary attachment problem?

[ShengHuo ZHU]

Kenichi Handa <address@hidden> writes:

> Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:
> > I just tried to send a mail message with an image attachment (a .png file).
> > I used the `mml-attach-file' command (`C-c C-a'), which seemed to work fine.
> 
> > But when I looked at my BCC copy of the message, while all the MIME
> > attachment headers &c were there, the image data was *binary*, and
> > morever seemed to have been corrupted somewhere in the transfer (as one
> > might expect from sending pure binary text).  Shouldn't message have
> > encoded the image somehow?
> 
> I tried this:
> 
> M-x message-mail RET, then input To: and Subject: fields, and
> input the body text "Test of C-c C-a.".
> Then, C-c C-a temp.png RET RET emacs screen shot RET C-c C-c.
> 
> What I received is as below.   It seems that binary image
> data is correctly encoded by base64.

It was discussed on the ding list. See:

http://www.gnus.org/list-archives/ding/199908/msg00304.html

ShengHuo