From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Brendan Halpin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: mime-compose.el and Debian Date: 27 May 2005 17:19:40 +0100 Message-ID: <87is14bq03.fsf@wivenhoe.staff8.ul.ie> References: <87d5rc1yi6.fsf@wivenhoe.staff8.ul.ie> Reply-To: brendan.halpin@ul.ie NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1117210977 2573 80.91.229.2 (27 May 2005 16:22:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 16:22:57 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 27 18:22:53 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DbhZs-0000wN-Uh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 May 2005 18:20:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DbheB-0003N9-NC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 May 2005 12:25:19 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Trace: individual.net 0g4uz2LCEA/I4LbV+St39wYQdN6/9N6zb59PyzB6OTO5S2tp7Q User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:131563 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:27022 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:27022 Phillip Lord writes: > >>>>> "Brendan" == Brendan Halpin writes: > > Brendan> I use mime-compose.el to attach files to mail in mail-mode, > Brendan> and was caught out when I upgraded to the latest Debian > Brendan> because mime-compose is hard-wired to use mmencode, whereas > Brendan> Debian offers mimencode instead. > > Brendan> Is mime-compose obsolete, and if so what should I be using > Brendan> to compose mime mail? > > > I tend to use Gnus these days, which has full read/write support for > mime. Have you tried message-mode (rather than mail-mode). MML (the > mime support) should just work. I do use both (ie currently in message-mode), but can't break the RMAIL habit so I get mail-mode when I do C-u R. As it happens my problem is trivial, since mmencode is just an 8.3 truncation of mimencode; I've solved it before by creating a symlink and this time by conditional code in .emacs. Brendan -- Brendan Halpin, Department of Sociology, University of Limerick, Ireland Tel: w +353-61-213147 f +353-61-202569 h +353-61-338562; Room F2-025 x 3147 mailto:brendan.halpin@ul.ie http://www.ul.ie/sociology/brendan.halpin.html