Re: Why is MIME hard?

[Reiner Steib]

On Sun, Sep 30 2007, Tim X wrote:

> Recently, I have had problems with Apple mail attachments, but they
> appear to be doing some strange stuff with their attachment handling
> (it is embedded inside the html part of the mail message - so if
> your configured like me to prefer the text version, you can't easily
> access the attachment (this is fixed in dev VM)).

Are you talking about attachments (e.g. images) inside
multipart/related MIME parts?  If so, what Apple mail is doing is
correct.  Cf. `gnus-mime-display-multipart-related-as-mixed' in Gnus:

,----[ (info "(gnus)MIME Commands") ]
| `gnus-mime-display-multipart-related-as-mixed'
|      Display "multipart/related" parts as "multipart/mixed".
| 
|      If displaying "text/html" is discouraged, see
|      `mm-discouraged-alternatives', images or other material inside a
|      "multipart/related" part might be overlooked when this variable is
|      `nil'.  *Note Display Customization: (emacs-mime)Display
|      Customization.
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Bye, Reiner.
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