Re: Hidden lines in the message body

[Rodolfo Medina]

Rodolfo Medina wrote:

>> I' attaching a text file containing eight lines.  If I insert it in a message
>> (e.g. with `C-x i') and then send the message, in the message body only the
>> first and the fifth will be visible, the others won't.
>
>> Can anybody explain why this happens and how to avoid it?



Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:

> It is because of the MIME emulating feature of Gnus that is
> enabled by default.  It splits peculiar sections, e.g. uuencoded
> data, non-MIME forwarded messages, etc., in the message body into
> MIME parts.  Your problem is a typical case that this feature
> works unwillingly, that is,  Gnus misidentifies the
> "------------------------------%<------------------------------"
> lines as the separators of the `insert-marks' part (See mm-uu.el).
>
> The MIME emulating feature works only when displaying articles.
> So, your messages will never be broken even if they look funny
> to the recipients who use Gnus.  But there is no way to avoid it
> other than to ask the recipients to disable this feature.  To do
> that:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> (setq gnus-article-emulate-mime nil)
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> or
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> (eval-after-load "mm-uu"
>   '(add-to-list 'mm-uu-configure-list
>               '(insert-marks . disabled)))
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---



Thanks.
The problem seems to be solved since I put in .gnus.el the line:

 (setq gnus-article-emulate-mime nil)

1) Is that what you meant? (I don't well understand the meaning of the lines
   where it says `cut here', `start', `end'.)

2) Won't there be any unwished side effects with other messages (e.g.,
   including attachments)?

Thanks indeed, cheers
Rodolfo