From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Art Werschulz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: rmail and attachments (emacs 23) Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:48:45 -0400 Message-ID: Reply-To: Art Werschulz NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1253681012 1482 80.91.229.12 (23 Sep 2009 04:43:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 04:43:32 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 23 06:43:25 2009 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 1MqJhN-0002dY-9I for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Sep 2009 06:43:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41347 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MqJhM-0007Pa-RN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:43:24 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news1.google.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 09:48:46 -0500 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:IIoZi5seRYQbbRQEGvkzh/VDwXs= Original-Lines: 48 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com Original-X-Trace: sv3-YQL7RGKEnXMF7kJSfTB/sYTp3y22hXSborI7eybbu5aQry+x67h82NlF3J0IxC1NxEVGGVG9IbwfFaf!8Uo7F68cHoAIfqENKJXAgOjcBX3VW5yQ8czl+pDYAbF0RTUAA3VhghJYJU4iSLHSxg== Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html 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: 1.3.40 Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:173265 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:39:08 -0400 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:68408 Archived-At: Hi all. Most of us are using the emacs rmail system for reading (and sending) mail. Previously, we were using emacs 22 on our Fedora 10 systems. We used John Rulnick's "etach" package to handle attachments (either detaching them when reading mail, or attaching them when sending mail). We have now upgraded from Fedora 10 to Fedora 11, which induced an upgrade from emacs 22 to emacs 23 (RPM emacs-23.1-3.fc11.i586, to be precise). etach still works fine for attaching attachments to mail that I'm sending. However, etach does not work for detaching attachments from mail that I'm reading. 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") signal(error ("Malformed boundary; type: (multipart/alternative (boundary . =_alternative 0075D08205257633_=)); disposition: (inline); encoding: nil")) error("%s; type: %s; disposition: %s; encoding: %s" "Malformed boundary" ("multipart/alternative" (boundary . "=_alternative 0075D08205257633_=")) ("inline") nil) rmail-mm-get-boundary-error-message("Malformed boundary" ("multipart/alternative" (boundary . "=_alternative 0075D08205257633_=")) ("inline") nil) rmail-mime-multipart-handler(("multipart/alternative" (boundary . "=_alternative 0075D08205257633_=")) ("inline") nil) rmail-mime-handle(("multipart/alternative" (boundary . "=_alternative 0075D08205257633_=")) ("inline") nil) rmail-mime-show() rmail-mime-multipart-handler(("multipart/mixed" (boundary . "=_mixed 0075D08005257633_=")) ("inline") nil) rmail-mime-handle(("multipart/mixed" (boundary . "=_mixed 0075D08005257633_=")) ("inline") nil) rmail-mime-show(t) rmail-mime() call-interactively(rmail-mime nil nil) Again, sometimes the "v" command works fine; sometimes, it doesn't. I've been unable to figure out necessary and sufficient conditions for success or failure. Any idea why this is happening? Any idea how to fix the problem? Thanks. -- Art Werschulz (8-{)} "Metaphors be with you." -- bumper sticker GCS/M (GAT): d? -p+ c++ l++ u+ P++ e--- m* s n+ h f g+ w+ t+ r- Net: agw@dsm.fordham.edu http://www.dsm.fordham.edu/~agw Phone: Fordham U. (212) 636-6325, Columbia U. (646) 775-6035