Re: RMAIL, MIME-related bug

[Peter S Galbraith]

Robert J. Chassell <address@hidden> wrote:

>     >>  IIRC, this is for add-on packages that add MIME support to RMAIL.
>     > Do you know of such a package? I was not able to find any.
> 
> Take a look at rmime.el.  I have been using it with no trouble.
> 
> Here is how rmime.el describes itself:
> 
>     ;;; rmime.el --- read MIME messages
> 
>     ;; Author: Ray Moody <address@hidden>
>     ;; Version: $Id: rmime.el,v 1.2 1996/05/30 02:24:58 moody Exp $
>     ;; Charset support version 0.3 by J. Chroboczek <address@hidden>
>     ;; Keywords: MIME, mail
> 
>     ;;; Commentary:
> 
>     ;; RMIME provides MIME support for several Emacs message reading
>     ;; packages.  RMIME has been designed with RMAIL in mind, but it has
>     ;; also been tested with mh-e and VM.  It should work with most other
>     ;; major modes as well.

Note: It probably doesn't work with modern MH-E as it handles MIME
natively.

Another avenue for rmail developers is to borrow some MIME support code
from MH-E which was borrowed from gnus.  (It might actually be easier to
isolate in the MH-E code.)