Re: Attachments appearing as part of main email message

[Reiner Steib]

On Sat, Jun 06 2009, Tassilo Horn wrote:

> Joe Fineman <joe_f@verizon.net> writes:
>> When I receive email in Gnus (v5.10.0, Emacs 22.3.1, under Windows XP)
>> that has .doc files & the like attached, they are reported at the end
>> of the text, and I can save them via _n_ K o.  If a .tex file is
>> attached, however, it is run into the text, and there is no way to
>> tell what its filename was for the sender.  Is there a way to defeat
>> this feature?
>
> Well, I think this is what you get when the sender declared the
> attachment to be attached "inline", and for text files some email apps
> do that automatically.  But you can force the display of mime buttons
> with `K b' to see what's text and what's attachment and to save it.

There's also `mm-inline-override-types'...

,----[ (info "(emacs-mime)Display Customization") ]
| `mm-inline-override-types'
|      `mm-inlined-types' may include regular expressions, for example to
|      specify that all `text/.*' parts be displayed inline.  If a user
|      prefers to have a type that matches such a regular expression be
|      treated as an attachment, that can be accomplished by setting this
|      variable to a list containing that type.  For example assuming
|      `mm-inlined-types' includes `text/.*', then including `text/html'
|      in this variable will cause `text/html' parts to be treated as
|      attachments.
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Bye, Reiner.
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