From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Sending attachments Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2009 06:18:08 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87k52rzyn1.fsf@benthic.rattlesnake.com> <873a9fw6dt.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87y6r7yp1y.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <0922916E-B9DD-41C4-8A3D-8550CDD56B62@mit.edu> <83r5ww1m3k.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1246789133 20740 80.91.229.12 (5 Jul 2009 10:18:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 10:18:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Chad Brown Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 05 12:18:46 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MNOo1-0006O9-Dx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Jul 2009 12:18:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52632 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MNOo0-0007Hs-NZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Jul 2009 06:18:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MNOnb-0006oF-MD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jul 2009 06:18:19 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MNOnS-0006ad-Hy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jul 2009 06:18:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=46837 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MNOnQ-0006aV-No for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jul 2009 06:18:09 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:60539) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MNOnQ-0003Ac-HG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jul 2009 06:18:08 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1MNOnQ-00037T-65; Sun, 05 Jul 2009 06:18:08 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Chad Brown on Sat, 4 Jul 2009 10:08:21 -0700) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:112037 Archived-At: MH-e, wherein I found that simple MIME is pretty easy but everything turns crazy when you hit multipart/mixed and multipart/alternative. I don't know a lot about Mime. What does multipart/alternative mean? I see that in incoming messages that have plain text and HTML, but handling those messages in Emacs should be basically trivial. So what is the difficulty? Likewise for multipart/mixed: I see that in a message I received, but it looks like handling that message requires nothing special or difficult. Adding a simple `attach file' to mail-mode is probably not very hard at all, but the result won't allow you to drop message- mode/mml (it's been long enough that I forget which parts are where). I do not propose to eliminate those programs. The people who installed them should have proposed the change, rather than sneaking it in as "part of Gnus". But that was years ago, and it would not make sense to remove it now.