Re: mime-compose.el and Debian

[Brendan Halpin]

Phillip Lord <p.lord@cs.man.ac.uk> writes:

> >>>>> "Brendan" == Brendan Halpin <brendan.halpin@ul.ie> 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
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