🚀 go-pugleaf

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).

VM is decoding the attachment within Emacs.  Do you have an external QP
decoder installed?  (You can get one in the VM source distribution.)
Have you set vm-mime-qp-decoder-program and vm-mime-qp-decoder-switches
accordingly?


-- 
Kevin Rodgers <kevinr@ihs.com>