From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Automatically parsing MIME files in rmail Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2006 15:57:47 -0700 Organization: IHS Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1167173961 2166 80.91.229.10 (26 Dec 2006 22:59:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2006 22:59:21 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 26 23:59:20 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1GzLGQ-0007ca-EL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Dec 2006 23:59:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GzLGQ-0003St-2E for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Dec 2006 17:59:18 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GzLGA-0003R7-Bz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Dec 2006 17:59:02 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GzLG9-0003QH-CY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Dec 2006 17:59:01 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GzLG9-0003Pp-1w for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Dec 2006 17:59:01 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GzLG8-0002bD-Jb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Dec 2006 17:59:00 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GzLG0-0000NU-4f for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Dec 2006 23:58:52 +0100 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.206 ([207.167.42.206]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 26 Dec 2006 23:58:52 +0100 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.206 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 26 Dec 2006 23:58:52 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.206 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) In-Reply-To: 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:39930 Archived-At: Craig Smilovitz wrote: > I use emacs rmail for mail reading. I seem to remember that in a > previous emacs I used (on a different machine) there was a function that > would automatically parse a MIME message and deposit its components in > separate files in a subdirectory. I executed this function manually > from the RMAIL buffer using M-x . > > I don't remember what the function was called. Does anyone know what it > was and extra credit if you can tell me where I can get an > implementation of this function. As far as I can determine, it doesn't > appear to be a function in my current installation. > > When I look at the emacs documentation, it describes a lot of functions > mm-* that do low-level mime parsing operations. My assumption is that > these are the guts that are called by the lisp macro that I want. But > the distance from the mm-* functions to what I want seems too great to > try and write the top level function myself. See http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs-en/Rmail#toc6 and http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs-en/RmailMime -- Kevin