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newsspam5REMOVETHIS@robf.de writes:

> Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null> writes:
>> Dear All,
>>
>> I'm having problems using VM and accessing attachments in messages
>> sent from apple mail. VM just simply doesn't see the attachment and
>> provides no way of accessing it that I can find. In fact, it gives no
>> real indication there is even an attachment apart from a small glyph
>> which you cannot do anything with. If you hit D to show the raw data,
>> you can see the following -
>>
>>> <headers snipped>
>
> You should not snip all of them, specifically the MIME headers,
> i.e. Content-type: would necessary debugging information.
>
> I guess it does contain:
>
>   Content-type: multipart/alternative; boundary=Apple-Mail-9--626804718
>
> ?
>

Yes, that was over eager snipping on my part. Here are the two MIME
related lines from the headers -

Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.3)
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=Apple-Mail-9--626804718

> Something which is a bit odd about your example: the attachment
> is on the same level as the HTML part, which means you will not
> see it if VM decides to present the PLAIN TEXT part.  But still
> you should see it if you press "D" once, i.e. you should get
> buttons for each mime part.
>

Yes, thats what struck me as odd about it. However, you definitely do
not get any button apart from a "UTF-8 plain text" when you hit D
button and when you click it, you will just see the plain text. The
HTML and the attachment which appears to be recursively stored within
that part do not show up at all. All that I do get is a small 'glyph'
which looks a bit like a percent sign and this seems to be the only
indication there is something else in the message.

> Maybe you also want to try my version of VM
> http://www.robf.de/Hacking/elisp/ and see if
> the problem still exists.
>

I will check it out and see if it is any different. I have found that
mutt, gmail and emacs mew all decode the message fine. VM seems to be
the only program having problems. I'm wondering if it is related to
the recursive nature of the attachment?

> If you send me a test mail I might debug the problem, but I
> cannot reproduce it here.
>

Thats a bit hard for me to do as I don't run apple mail. I'm getting
an increasing number of messages from people who are running apple
mail and any of them which include attachments are a problem it seems
for VM. When I return to work, if you don't mind, I might see if I can
get a test message sent directly to you so that you can see if you
have the same problems. 

thanks,

Tim


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