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From: Glenn Morris <rgm+news@stanford.edu>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: rmail and attachments (emacs 23)
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 23:24:49 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <38ocp2ch5a.fsf@xoc2.stanford.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: uefxafc9wy.fsf@sobolev.dsm.fordham.edu

Art Werschulz wrote:

> I have tried using rmail's rmail-mime command, bound to the key "v", to
> deal with rmail msgs containing attachments.  Sometimes this works;
> sometimes this doesn't.  When it fails, I get the following error msg:
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Malformed boundary; type: (multipart/alternative (boundary . =_alternative 0075D08205257633_=)); disposition: (inline); encoding: nil")

Please use M-x report-emacs-bug, give a minimal recipe starting from
`emacs -Q', and attach an example of a message that causes this failure.
Thanks.

Perhaps there is no newline after the final mime boundary, or something
like that. Seeing an example message should make it clear.


      reply	other threads:[~2009-09-23  6:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-22 14:48 rmail and attachments (emacs 23) Art Werschulz
2009-09-23  6:24 ` Glenn Morris [this message]

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