From: Eric Schulte <eric.schulte@gmx.com>
To: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: org-mime-htmlize: visual representation (thunderbird)
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 08:21:32 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ty0pb0jy.fsf@gmx.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87bomxxis5.fsf@mat.ucm.es
Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:
>>> On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 09:38:46 -0400, Eric Schulte <eric.schulte@gmx.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Uwe,
> > Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:
> >>
>
> > OK, for my own edification I had changed the message body from
> > (I'm hoping these are sufficiently quoted to survive mailing)
>
> > ,----[original]
> > |
> > |
> > | text alternative...
> > |
> > | html alternative... |
>
> > | images for html...
> > `----
>
> > to
>
> > ,----[revised (and more broken in TB)]
> > |
> > |
> > | text alternative...
> > |
> > |
>
> > | html alternative...
> > | images for html...
> > |
> > |
> > `----
>
> > which wraps the html and images into a multipart/related type.
>
> > Why is this later structure illegal? Are nested multi type parts not
> > allowed? Also, it seems that everything I've tried works in gnus and in
> > most web user agents. Is thunderbird simply a stickler for the letter
> > of the RFC law?
>
>
> I cannot answer this. However I rechecked everything and the
> issue is the following.
> >>
> >> Which brings me to the good news. After I wrote to you
> >> I received a message from the TB developers which
> >> emphasised that, besides the information I have gave
> >> you, the main point is the header, which should be
> >>
> >> Content-type: multipart/related; boundary="=-=-="
> >> and the thunderbird developers insist that this is the
> >> RFC 2387 standard.
> >>
> >> Gnus actually generate via the mml-generate-mime function
> >> the header
> >> Content-type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=-=-="
> >> which is wrong.
> >>
>
> > OK, I've just reverted my change, but I'm keeping the change of image
> > disposition to "inline".
>
>
> I own you an apology! If I leave mml-generate-mime
> untouched, that is I neither use my modification nor do I
> use use Lars new code, but I use your *new* code then the
> generated and sent message is displayed *correctly* in
> thunderbird.
>
> The resulting message contains
>
> Content-type: multipart/alternative; boundary="=-=-="
>
> Instead of
>
> Content-type: multipart/related; boundary="=-=-="
>
> As it would in my case, but it seems that thunderbird is OK
> with that.
>
> The reason I wrote you earlier that your changes made things
> worse was that I did make a mistake in my modification of
> mml-generate-mime. I also thought I checked your code with
> the old mml function but for some reason the old version was
> not used even after a restart.
>
> Sorry for the trouble!
>
> Uwe
>
Hi Uwe,
No problem at all. I just reverted by reversion in git, so if I read
this email correctly everything should be working now in TB. Please let
me know if this is not the case.
Thanks,
--
Eric Schulte
http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-12 14:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-27 11:01 org-mime-htmlize: visual representation (thunderbird) Uwe Brauer
2012-03-31 17:13 ` Eric Schulte
2012-04-01 15:19 ` Uwe Brauer
2012-04-01 16:38 ` Eric Schulte
2012-04-10 13:00 ` Uwe Brauer
2012-04-11 4:23 ` Eric Schulte
2012-04-11 9:44 ` Uwe Brauer
2012-04-11 13:38 ` Eric Schulte
2012-04-12 11:59 ` Uwe Brauer
2012-04-12 12:21 ` Eric Schulte [this message]
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