From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: What does it mean that mail mode doesn't support MIME? Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2024 16:06:24 +0300 Message-ID: <86v83zov8v.fsf@gnu.org> References: <877cgjq8hw.fsf@RISEUP> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="21266"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 30 15:07:00 2024 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1s1nCF-0005DO-1T for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 30 Apr 2024 15:06:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1s1nBo-0002SK-RP; Tue, 30 Apr 2024 09:06:32 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1s1nBn-0002PG-3B for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Apr 2024 09:06:31 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1s1nBm-0008Fg-RP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Apr 2024 09:06:30 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=MIME-version:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: Date; bh=KdrtHHxI50VqR767/T6YmYbTpYnQAyU9PeGWL0wTcyI=; b=NEgHet3NnT/pfCWk4nvb atgcpB3bEVARXh1WiSlwdnJwQT01c+0HZHnBPnO+uZMrho+1d1GReL9lOmv0Kim3G6q/cndGFIjrt vCzktvnhG1u/i9D+5tBMMV2iY5wXovfWZH7UWpDmL+1I4h3WvcugF4lBXV5Uuj7ZeHxBbQDqNQMzq aCUbhgp+MOdTv0M2wqUvxe4WZsMtm3GH286uhnuvRq5aATZk2edztAMN5SKuOdlS3ewiOwT40XnX8 MSWQyT3FfPoU2YcxFJC/kvnzmnibXRF892tPErZDRgf/WK46NtqLMSOIcDaXO98cnO1KAXZPPMpyO xZowolMr7qU92A==; In-Reply-To: <877cgjq8hw.fsf@RISEUP> (message from BP25 on Sat, 27 Apr 2024 13:45:47 +0100) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:146515 Archived-At: > From: BP25 > Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2024 13:45:47 +0100 > > I read: "Prior to Emacs 23.2, the default mode was Mail mode, which is > similar to Message mode in many respects but lacks features such as MIME > support." and also "The most typical thing users want to use the > multipart things in MIME for is to add “attachments” to mail they send > out." From this I deduced that mail mode doesn't support attachments. > > However, mail mode supports attachments (use the mail-add-attachment > command to do that) and C-h f mail-add-attachment says it adds it as > MIME attachment! I deduce that attachments are in the "universe" of > MIME, and by "lacks feature such as MIME support" really the manual > meant "lacks features such as complete and total MIME support", right? Right. > This begs the question: What MIME things then does mail mode then not > support? I couldn't find info on the manual but if you direct me to some > reference I'd be very grateful. For that, you'll need to read the documentation of message-mode (in the Gnus manual), and probably also the Emacs MIME manual.