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regarding emacs21: compose-mail improperly handles attachments
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Package: emacs21
Version: 21.2-1
Severity: normal
I composed an email message in emacs with compose-mail, and then
attached two files with C-c TAB (mail-attach-file) filename command.
One was binary (pdf) and the other regular text.
When I sent the mail, I was asked what encoding to use, and I selected
the default (which had unix in the name--don't remember details).
I got the following warning from my mail system (I cc'd myself):
Message 19mfjG-0000NX-AU has been frozen (delivery error message).
The sender is <>.
The following address(es) have yet to be delivered:
[email protected] <[email protected]>: LMTP error
after end of data: 554 5.6.0 Message contains NUL characters
exim4 is my MTA, delivering via LMTP socket to cyrus21 IMAP server.
There are at least two possibilities:
1) mail-attach-file does not do MIME attachments and is not intended
for such use. I couldn't tell from the documentation. If this is so,
it would be fine to downgrade this to wishlist "Handle MIME
attachments in mail composition." In the interim, it would be nice to
have a warning in the documentation.
2) It's supposed to work. Then it's a bug.
Thanks.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux iron 2.4.20 #1 SMP Thu Jun 26 15:57:25 PDT 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages emacs21 depends on:
ii dpkg 1.10.10 Package maintenance system for Deb
ii emacsen-common 1.4.15 Common facilities for all emacsen.
ii libc6 2.3.1-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libjpeg62 6b-8 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii liblockfile1 1.05 NFS-safe locking library, includes
ii libncurses5 5.3.20030719-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libpng2 1.0.15-4 PNG library, older version - runti
ii libtiff3g 3.5.7-2 Tag Image File Format library
ii xaw3dg 1.5-24 Xaw3d widget set
ii xlibs 4.2.1-6 X Window System client libraries
ii zlib1g 1:1.1.4-14 compression library - runtime
-- no debconf information
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Hi! I'm closing this bug, since it affected emacs21, and the current
version is 23. If you still encounter this problem, please feel free to
re-open it and move it to the appropriate package, or ask me to do it.
Solveig
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