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I used to have the same problem for quite a while until I switched over
to external mime decoders and encoders.

Download the base64-decode and base64-encode programs. Also available for
quoted-printable.

Set the following in your .vm file. similarly for quoted printable too.

;;
;; External MIME decode
;;
(setq vm-mime-base64-decoder-program "base64-decode")
(setq vm-mime-base64-encoder-program "base64-encode")

You will see things blaze after this.


Tim Freedom wrote:
> 
> I'm using VM-7.07 on emacs-21.2.3 and recently got a pdf attachment
> that is bafflling me.  Here is my INBOX Summary,
> 
>   507  Joe Schmo  Jul 24  201245/13163128  "new spec"
> 
> The mime header notes the following,
> 
>   Content-Type: application/octet-stream;
>           name="new_spec.pdf"
>   Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
>   Content-Disposition: attachment;
>           filename="new_spec.pdf"
> 
> the quirk is I click to save the attachment and wait and wait...
> 
> After about an hour worth of waiting (on a pretty decent SUN
> machine with 2GB of Ram), I get the following message (note
> the attachment is not saved either).
> 
>      Warning: memory in use exceeds lisp pointer size
>      Killing some buffers may delay running out of memory.
>      However, certainly by the time you receive the 95% warning,
>      you should clean up, kill this Emacs, and start a new one.
> 
> What's going on ?  Others who were CC'ed on the email were able
> to save-off the attachment, view it, etc (they're using other mail
> clients).
> 
> Work arounds, ideas ?  More info requests ?
> 
> Regards,
> 
>  .tf.