From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Why is MIME hard? Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 11:42:47 -0400 Message-ID: References: <1190902460.055800.73670@y42g2000hsy.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1190997679 16203 80.91.229.12 (28 Sep 2007 16:41:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:41:19 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 28 18:41:13 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 1IbIts-00041Q-RV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Sep 2007 18:41:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IbItp-0000Jc-Ba for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Sep 2007 12:41:09 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news2.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.umontreal.ca!news.umontreal.ca.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 10:42:47 -0500 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:aiiMq3q3FUKx2mA/aY01tAbXEvk= Original-Lines: 12 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 132.204.27.213 Original-X-Trace: sv3-3hQLzZm93r5Vp0xOo1RtOHY0qAnziwhyqNAP3bpx+yl74AK7bDEYkLzUOZIPg5t8GbqYhaYVjpoLSzN!08l+dRE0Aucvh88xIQEXEu6aILaDvZ/XaZm7XCXmtRrr/6hLxK8WfJgwkOmgQMbF+N2HGutTIM6n!gGqF8nCcS6jQrwryHw== Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@umontreal.ca X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@umontreal.ca X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.35 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:152449 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:47958 Archived-At: > 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