On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 10:46:59AM +0200, SK wrote: > I am having issue with step 2 because every email I forward to > Amazon/kindle comes back with the error: > > --error msg-- > Your message to x...@free.kindle.com, sent at xxx GMT did not include > any attached documents or image files. > > The Kindle Personal Document Service can convert and deliver the > following types of documents: > Microsoft Word (.doc, .docx) > Rich Text Format (.rtf) > HTML (.htm, .html) > Text (.txt) documents > Archived documents (zip , x-zip) and compressed archived documents > Mobi book > > I did forward the email as attachment but for some reason I guess > amazon is not really interpreting the attaching as one of the valid > types.
Not owning a Kindle, this is complete speculation. But at a guess Amazon is recognising text documents either by their mime type, or (ugh!) by the .txt filename extension. In case you haven't already tried this, you can manually change the mime type of the attachment from the compose menu using <edit-type> (bound to ^T by default), and set it to "text/plain". Failing that, saving the mail you want to forward to a file with extension .txt, then attaching that file to a new mail, will both produce the desired file extension and automatically set the mime type to "text/plain" (assuming you have mime.types configured sanely). HTH, Toby -- Dr T. S. Cubitt Mathematics and Quantum Information group Department of Mathematics Complutense University Madrid, Spain email: ts...@cantab.net web: www.dr-qubit.org
