From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Girish Kulkarni Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Why is MIME hard? Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 14:14:20 -0000 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1190902460.055800.73670@y42g2000hsy.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1190904101 25623 80.91.229.12 (27 Sep 2007 14:41:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 14:41:41 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 27 16:41:36 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IauYG-0005ZA-Aj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:41:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IauYD-0003Bx-3R for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Sep 2007 10:41:13 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!y42g2000hsy.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 23 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 210.210.15.150 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1190902460 20209 127.0.0.1 (27 Sep 2007 14:14:20 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 14:14:20 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070902 Firefox/2.0.0.6,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: y42g2000hsy.googlegroups.com; posting-host=210.210.15.150; posting-account=ps2QrAMAAAA6_jCuRt2JEIpn5Otqf_w0 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:152420 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:47929 Archived-At: I know this has been asked here many times before, but I'd be glad if someone explains in a less esoteric manner. I recently started reading my mail in Emacs and tried VM in XEmacs 21.4 and Rmail in GNU Emacs 21.1.1. While I have settled on Rmail for last couple of weeks I found that the lack of MIME support was bothering me. 0. How can I receive messages with MIME? (Attachments, HTML messages, ...) 1. How can I send messages with MIME? (basically attachments) The oft-quoted page http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/~trey/emacs/mime.html seems to have stopped existing and I have been through the Emacs MIME manual. But the real reason for posting this here is my inability to guess a philosophy behind making MIME so hard in Emacs. Can't it be any simpler? Also, someone commented on comp.mail.mime that I had to "let go of Rmail and use Gnus or Mew instead" if I wanted MIME. Is that really so? -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://girish.50webs.com