Uwe Brauer <o...@mat.ucm.es> writes: >>> On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 09:38:46 -0400, Eric Schulte <eric.schu...@gmx.com> >>> wrote: > > > Hi Uwe, > > Uwe Brauer <o...@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/
