MIME files in MSWindows - Emacs 21.1.1

MIME files in MSWindows - Emacs 21.1.1

[Craig Smilovitz]

I'm running Emacs 21.1.1 under WinME and using it to read mail.  This
version of emacs does not interpret MIME-encoded mail when under
windows, but simply displays it as an ASCII message.  (When I first
try and read mail, the status line says "feature rmail-mime not
supported").

That's normally ok, but sometimes I actually want the byte-stream or
.gif (etc.) data.  Doing rmail-resend and reading the resent mail with
another mail reader (such as Netscape) used to work but it doesn't
anymore.  (I don't remember what caused that to first fail, probably
the upgrade to 21.1 from whatever I used before.)  I believe there's a
DOS utility that pulls apart MIME but I have no idea what it's called
or where to find it.

Does anyone know if either 1) I can get Windows based emacs to
interpret Mime or 2) there is a DOS-based utility around to pull apart
these messages (and eliminate the character-based line endings that
emacs inserted)?

Thank you in advance,

Craig Smilovitz
craig@theworld.com

Re: MIME files in MSWindows - Emacs 21.1.1

[Kai Großjohann]

Craig Smilovitz <craig@theWorld.com> writes:

> I'm running Emacs 21.1.1 under WinME and using it to read mail.  This
> version of emacs does not interpret MIME-encoded mail when under
> windows, but simply displays it as an ASCII message.  (When I first
> try and read mail, the status line says "feature rmail-mime not
> supported").

RMAIL is the default Emacs mail reader, but it doesn't grok MIME.
There is rmime.el by Ray Moody for reading MIME.

I think that MH-E has MIME support, but I don't know any details.
MH-E comes with Emacs.

Gnus comes with Emacs, it also allows you to read mail, and it
supports MIME.  The catch here is that Gnus behaves in a newsreaderly
fashion which is unusual for a mail reader, and also it's not that
simple to set up.

Then there is VM.  It does not come with Emacs.  It's the default
XEmacs mail reader.  It supports MIME.  There was a time when VM was
not supported on Emacs, but this has changed I think.
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Re: MIME files in MSWindows - Emacs 21.1.1

[Peter S Galbraith]

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Kai Großjohann <kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de> wrote:

> Craig Smilovitz <craig@theWorld.com> writes:
> 
> > I'm running Emacs 21.1.1 under WinME and using it to read mail.  This
> > version of emacs does not interpret MIME-encoded mail when under
> > windows, but simply displays it as an ASCII message.  (When I first
> > try and read mail, the status line says "feature rmail-mime not
> > supported").
> 
> [snip]
> I think that MH-E has MIME support, but I don't know any details.
> MH-E comes with Emacs.

Yes, but I have no idea how it works under Windows.  You first need a
working MH or nmh underneath.  We need a HOWTO if someone knows the
details.

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