[mew-int 01127] Re: Mew 3.0.68 and extremely annoying problem with attachments...

[Miguel Marques]

Greetings...
On Fri, 18 Oct 2002 14:39:40 +0900 (JST), Kazu Yamamoto (山本和彦) <kazu at example.com> wrote:
> From: Miguel Marques <miguel at example.com>
> Subject: [mew-int 01125] Mew 3.0.68 and extremely annoying problem with attachments...
> 
> > If anyone as any idea on how to fix this I'd really appreciate some
> > help.  Versions are:
> 
> There are three ways to go:
> 
> (1) If you don't want to use multipart/alternative functionality, that
>     is, you want to dispaly multipart/alternative like
>     multipart/mixed:
> 
> 	Put the following to your .mew.el
> 		(setq mew-use-alternative nil)
> 
> (2) If you want to use multipart/alternative functionality but prefer
>     text/plain to text/html:
> 
> 	Remove
> 		(setq mew-mime-multipart-alternative-list
> 		      '("Text/Html" "Text/Plain" ".*"))
> 	from your .emacs or .mew.el
> 
> 	Note that '("Text/Plain" ".*") is the default value.
> 
> (3) If you want to use multipart/alternative functionality and
>     want to display text/html *inline*:
> 
> 	Put the following to your .mew.el
> 		(setq mew-mime-multipart-alternative-list
> 		      '("Text/Html" "Text/Plain" ".*"))
> 
> 	And install "w3m" and "mew-w3m.el". For more information,
> 	see "mew.dot.mew".
> 
> --Kazu
Let me try to explain this better.
I sort of understand the different settings.  What I don't understand
is that with the same settings things seem to work differently on
different messages.
I have 2 messages (one of them the one I previously attached) in a folder.
They both show an M in summary mode.  They both display the header 
>> X-Mew: Text/Html in Multipart/Alternative as a singlepart 
when I look at them.  They both contain a text/plain part followed by
a text/html part.

Message A:
I position to it press , I get:

>> #     # ####### #     # #
>> #     #    #    ##   ## #
>> #     #    #    # # # # #
>> #######    #    #  #  # #
>> #     #    #    #     # #
>> #     #    #    #     # #
>> #     #    #    #     # #######
>>
>>
>>Size:		7083 bytes
>>Browser:	galeon

I press , I get the contents of the message and I can read them.
I press : I get following in summary mode.

B    1  Text/Plain(ks_c_5601-1987)*                                                              
B    2  Text/Html(ks_c_5601-1987)*                                                               

I can read the plaintext in 1 and 2 gives me a display like the above for HTML.  Great.


Message B:
I position to it press, I get:

>> #     # ####### #     # #
>> #     #    #    ##   ## #
>> #     #    #    # # # # #
>> #######    #    #  #  # #
>> #     #    #    #     # #
>> #     #    #    #     # #
>> #     #    #    #     # #######
>>
>>
>>Size:		0 bytes
>>Browser:	galeon

Notice it says 0 bytes
I press , I get:

>>This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
>>
>>------=_NextPart_000_00DA_01C275E5.7907F380
>>Content-Type: text/plain;
>>	charset="iso-8859-1"
>>Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
>>
>>
>>------=_NextPart_000_00DA_01C275E5.7907F380
>>Content-Type: text/html;
>>	charset="iso-8859-1"
>>Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
>>
>>
>>------=_NextPart_000_00DA_01C275E5.7907F380--
>>
>>
>>- 
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Notice there are no contents anywhere, just what looks like the Mime
boundaries being displayed.

I press : I get:
Q    1  Text/Plain(iso-8859-1)*                                                                  
Q    2  Text/Html(iso-8859-1)*

1 is empty 2 shows the same as above again with size: 0 bytes.
I cannot see the contents of the message.

But if I use C-c TAB I can see there's both ascii and html in
message B (I can see it them in between the MIME boundaries).  They
just don't display.
Am I being dumb or is there a problem with the parsing of some
MIME messages?
Thanks for the quick response.  

							Miguel

C. Miguel Marques, Development Services, Computing and Network Services, York University
e-mail: miguel at example.com, voice: (416)736-2100x22684, fax: (416)736-5830