David Dyer-Bennet <dd-b at dd-b.net> wrote: > >Adina Adler <adina at panix.com> writes: > >> "Lisa Grant Coffin" <lisa at spindot.com> wrote: >> >> >DQotLS0tLSBPcmlnaW5hbCBNZXNzYWdlIC0tLS0tIA0KRnJvbTogIkdhbWV0ZWNoIiA8dm9sdHJv >> >bmFscGhhQGhvdG1haWwuY29tPg0KVG86IDxkcmFnYWVyYUBkcmFnYWVyYS5pbmZvPg0KU2VudDog >> >> [rest snipped] >> >> Everything that I get from Lisa Grant Coffin looks like this. Does >> anyone else have this problem? I read mail using emacs rmail, and I >> think this system is running in NetBSD. > >Previous messages I've looked at from Lisa are in plain text, but >Base64 encoded for transfer (which makes sense if the message body is >potentially unicode). Doesn't make any sense for an English-language >plain text list though. Her most recent message *doesn't* show that >when I look at it here, which probably means that the oe-quotefix >patch has also taken care of the base64 encoding. Can you read her >more recent messages? Yes, the problem seems to have vanished. > >I'm reading in emacs using gnus, and gnus is capable of interpreting >the bas64 encoding. I think VM might be also (and it seems to me >nearly identical to rmail in user interface, so you might be able to >switch to VM without much learning curve). Actually, I once thought about reading mail in gnus, but I could never get the configuration to work. (I've been reading news in gnus for years, but it worked perfectly the first time I tried it.) Do you know of a good reference? I tried the method suggested in the gnus manual and my mail never seemed to go anywhere. -- Adina