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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why is MIME hard?
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 11:42:47 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvfy0y23wb.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1190902460.055800.73670@y42g2000hsy.googlegroups.com

> 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?

I believe the reason is just that there hasn't been much work on Rmail.


        Stefan

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-09-28 15:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-27 14:14 Why is MIME hard? Girish Kulkarni
2007-09-27 19:15 ` Reiner Steib
2007-09-27 20:52   ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-09-28  7:17 ` Dmitri Minaev
2007-09-28 15:42 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2007-09-30 13:28 ` Tim X
2007-09-30 14:38   ` Reiner Steib
2007-10-02  7:03     ` Tim X

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