Hi,

I'd like to attach one or more messages (articles from nnml and/or
nnimap backends) to a message as rfc822 MIME section but I'm not quite
sure about the best way to do this in Gnus. N.B.: I do not what to
/forward/ the messages but attach them without forwarding the original
message(s). Any ideas anyone?

Regards,

Ulf

Ulf Stegemann writes:

`mml-attach-file' is an interactive compiled Lisp function
-- loaded from "mml"
(mml-attach-file FILE &optional TYPE DESCRIPTION DISPOSITION)

Documentation:
Attach a file to the outgoing MIME message.
The file is not inserted or encoded until you send the message with
`C-c C-c' or `C-c C-s'.

FILE is the name of the file to attach. TYPE is its
content-type, a string of the form "type/subtype". DESCRIPTION
is a one-line description of the attachment. The DISPOSITION
specifies how the attachment is intended to be displayed. It can
be either "inline" (displayed automatically within the message
body) or "attachment" (separate from the body).

mml-attach-file is on C-c C-a, C-c return f, C-c C-m f

Karl Kleinpaste kleinpaste.org> wrote:

Yes, of course I can attach the article /file/ (at least with nnml) but
the mime part is named rather strange then and what's more important, the
article is not processed like it is when doing a forward (e.g. cleaning
of headers etc.)

Regards,

Ulf

Ulf Stegemann writes:

What MIME type did you give it? You should identify it as
message/rfc822. Then it will get the right MIME content descriptors so
that it is processed properly when displayed.

On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:52:50 +0200, Ulf wrote:

My usual workaround is to use the forward function, but then I don't
send the forwarded email, but rather copy the part I want to include,
and paste it into the email I want to attach it to.

So I:

a) Read the article I want to attach
b) Start to forward it (C-c C-f)
c) Copy from the beginning [#mml type=message/rfc822
disposition=inline]-tag to the end [#/mml]-tag.
d) Delete the forward article buffer (C-x k)
e) Start a new email (m)
f) Paste the copied article.

There are probably easier ways, but I do it seldom enough that I haven't
investigated.

Karl Kleinpaste kleinpaste.org> wrote:

Yes, it's displayed properly (at least by Gnus) but nevertheless it has
all the unwanted headers like (Received, X-Spam.. etc.). Apart from that
this approach only works with a single-file-per-message backend. What
about nnfolder (which I don't use, but anyway)? And furthermore, the
approach is a bit clumsy, too. I thought, maybe there's a simpler
solution.

Regards,

Ulf

Adam Sjøgren wrote:

That's exactly the workaround I usually use but it's rather cumbersome
and not very elegant. Since the forward function already offers all the
functionality needed, I thought, I had just missed something when it
comes to attaching messages. But it seems that there's currently really
no shortcut for it?!

Regards,

Ulf

On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:27:58 +0200, Ulf wrote:

Maybe an itch for you to scratch?

:-),

Adam

Adam Sjøgren wrote:

maybe, but I'm still undecided if it is really itching strong enough ;)

Ulf