Re: no mime support?

Greg Minshall <minshall <at> acm.org> wrote:

> thanks for the reply.

You're welcome. We're delighted to have you aboard.

>                        i'm running emacs built from source to use X
> rather than whatever Quartz-macos thing:

OK...

> ----
> MH-E 8.0
> 
> MH-E compilation details:
>  Byte compiled:		yes
>  Gnus (compile-time):	Gnus v5.9.0
>  Gnus (run-time):	Gnus v5.13

Looks like you're compiling MH-E with the default (old) version of Emacs
on your system. Probably emacs21. Strange things can happen when there's
a mismatch between your Gnus runtime and compile-times (which is why we
ended up putting this info in mh-version . From the README:

    ** Compile.
    ...

    If you run Emacs by any name other than `emacs', use the following
    instead:

	cd mh-e-8.0.3
	make EMACS=myemacs

    For example, Mac users might have to use something like:

	make EMACS=/Applications/DarwinPorts/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs 

However, since you're compiling you're own, it sounds like you might
want to try "make EMACS=emacs23" or something...

On the other hand, both emacs22 and emacs23 contain the latest version
of MH-E, so it might be easiest to just take your local version of MH-E
out of your load path (until I have a chance to put out version 8.1).

> it isn't ';'!    thanks for pointing that out.  (i'm moving from
> Brent Welch's exmh, and getting used to mh-e -- which i really like -- i
> akin to 10 years ago switching from 15 years of vi to emacs; i.e.,
> difficult!)

Then the manual is just for you . While we put a lot of work into the
online help (?, C-h m, etc.), there's a lot of stuff in MH that is
harder to stumble across. Do skim the manual at
http://mh-e.sf.net/manual/

> the example i gave (from spam) had the weird windows font.  but, other
> examples don't.  actually, below is a spam that should display
> either ascii or html (again, spam).

This example was truncated--it ended with:

> ----

instead of a MIME boundary. Cut and paste error, or a bug in your
.procmailrc script? I replaced it with

  ------=_NextPart_000_0007_01C886FD.7C28DDC0--

and the message showed up fine for me using both emacs22 -Q and emacs23
-Q. For fun, I truncated that line again, and MH-E still did the right
thing .

Trying getting your compile- and run-time Gnus versions to match and I
think you'll be in better shape.

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