Re: [bug-mailutils] Email

[Kidong Lee]

Thank you very much. 
This is what I'm looking for.

Mark said what I'd like to say. =)
I didn't know about mime object because 
there's no explanation about mime object in mailutils documentation.

I think current documentation does not have detail explanation enough.
and I hope it will be upgraded.

Thanks


On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 11:07:23AM +0300, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > There is message_create_attachment() function in mailutils
> > but it can't attach file in existing message(message_t type).
> > (Actually I don't know how to do it. =)
> 
> The function message_create_attachment only creates an attachment, it
> does not actually attach it to another message. To attach a message,
> use mime_add_part function. The scenario is:
> 
> 1) Create a MIME object using mime_create
> 2) Create your attachments (either directly or using one of
> the functions from attachment.c) and append them to the MIME
> object using mime_add_part().
> 3) Call mime_get_message(). It will return the message object
> associated with the MIME object. This is what you need: a message
> with all the attachments included.
> 
> See the following sources for examples:
> 
> libsieve/actions.c      build_mime() function at line 126
> mh/mhn.c                edit_mime() at line 2156.
> 
> > IMHO, it should be added the functions about attach file.
> > I.E, message_add_attachment(), message_remove_attachment() is needed.
> 
> I doubt if it would be a reasonable thing to do. Attachments should
> be added to the MIME object, which helds all the information necessary
> for the proper encapsulation. Message_t simply lacks the necessary
> mechanisms, and it shouldn't have them, anyway.
> 
> Regards,
> Sergey
> 
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