Re: Attachments in forwarded messages garbled

[David Abrahams]

Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:

> On Wed, Nov 08 2006, David Abrahams wrote:
>
>> Ever since I made the switch to Linux for my main machine, I've been
>> having the problem that when I forward (gnus-summary-mail-forward) a
>> message that contains an attachment, the recipent gets a garbled
>> version of the original attachment.
>
> Without *any* kind of information what is kind of problem the
> "garbled" message/attachment has, it's next to impossible to help you.
> You might send such a message to gmane.test or send us a gzipped mbox
> of the received message.  Be sure not to include private stuff.

I will arrange such a test in a follow-up message.

>> I am using a CVS version of Emacs.
>
> In this article, you used Emacs 23 (CVS unicode branch; experimental).
> Please try to reproduce the problem with Emacs 22 (CVS trunk or
> pretest tarball).

I did it already with the HEAD of the CVS trunk and the result is the
same.  I am having a very hard time figuring out which tags correspond
to various releases.

>> I see this effect both with the version of Gnus it ships with and
>> with a CVS HEAD version of Gnus.  I have unfortunately been unable
>> to test this with a release version (21.4) of emacs; Gnus just won't
>> start up for me in that version :(
>
> Independent from the attachment problem, it might be worth to debug
> this problem.

Yes, it might.  But the other problem is more critical to me.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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