>> 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"
That does not work for two reasons: - amazon does not recognise the forwarded attachment as "attachment" for some reason - when I covert from message/rfc822 to text/plain, the whole msg header part gets dumped in. > 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). That works indeed. However it is a painful manual process. Any quick way to automate it? Thanks, skn > > 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
